Cumbria’s music and arts festival, Solfest is back after a year’s sabbatical in 2014 with a new "more compact and bijou approach". It’s the same old Solfest experience refreshed and revitalised. Some of the biggest names in folk and traditional music will take to the stage over the bank holiday weekend August 28-30.
The Unthanks, Kathryn Tickell & The Side, The Sam Kelly Trio and Peatbog Faeries and The Lancashire Hotpots will be joined by cult electronica ambient dance band Banco De Gaia. The Baghdaddies, Pikey Beatz, The Skints, Bombskare, Young Rebel Set, Holy Moly And The Crackers, Emma And The Professor, Stark, The Talks, Bridie Jackson And The Arbour and of course many more.
Solfest’s famed Love Shack and Electric Village will host the very best in dance, dub-step, trance, reggae, electronic and a whole range of experimental sounds with 8:58, DJ Templehead, RoomFull Of Mirrors, Radioactive Man (live), The Hobo (aka DJ TurtleWax), Age Of Glass, Werkha, Shocon, Silverclub, Gella, Projekt Dataline, Gemma Furbank and many many more.
Solfest takes place at Tarns, near Aspatria, over the bank holiday weekend August 28-30.
Ticket prices range from £10 for children’s tickets to £110 for a full adult weekend. Full details are here.
For more information, go to the Solfest Facebook page
