Montrose Music Festival

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Montrose Music Festival is a Scottish music festival which takes place at the end of May in Montrose, Angus. It has become a much anticipated, annual event across Scotland. The festival committee is a non-profit, volunteer run organisation, dedicated to promoting free live music of all styles and genres, and at all levels, in Montrose and surrounding areas. The festival actively promotes local acts as well as hosting musicians from across the United Kingdom. It has become successful locally, winning the Pride of Angus Award in 2008.[1]

Montrose Music Festival
Location(s) Montrose, Scotland, United Kingdom
Years active 2008 - present
Date(s) Late May - Early June
Genre Rock, Pop, folk
Website http://www.montrosemusicfestival.co.uk/

Inaugural Festival

The first Montrose Music Festival took place over the weekend of Friday 31 May - Sunday 1 June 2008[2] and was an overwhelming success,[3][4] bringing thousands of visitors and an estimated £500,000 boost to the local economy.[5] The main attraction of the inaugural festival was the Friday night opening concert by the legendary Average White Band, regarded by many as the perfect band to open the first festival because of Montrose's connection with original AWB saxophonist's Malcolm Duncan (musician).

During the Saturday and Sunday, the music moved into the pubs and hotels with over 60 free entry gigs over the two days, with acts of varying genres entertaining thousands of music fans. Amongst these acts were: Highly respected harmonica player Fraser Speirs, Award winning Scottish folk band Malinky, Young English Singer/songwriter Joni Fuller and upcoming Oxford based alt-rock band Lights Action.

2008 line up

Average White Band appeared at the first festival in 2008

2009 line up

The 2009 festival took place over the weekend from Thursday 28 to Sunday 31 May. Building on the success of the 2008 festival, organisers booked Scottish band, Deacon Blue to headline the 2009 festival.[10] Demand for the opening concert was so high that the tickets were sold out within 20 minutes.[11]

  • Deacon Blue
  • The Trade
  • Alto Elite
  • Blue Belly
  • Descartes
  • Doghouse Roses[12]
  • The Fortunate Sons
  • Ghosts of Progress
  • The Goodnights
  • Havana Swing
  • Home Made Jam
  • Kinch
  • The Sons O' The Soil
  • The Worry Beads

2010 line up

The Proclaimers played a sell-out gig in Montrose in 2010

Pre-Festival

Festival

  • The Fortunate Sons[13]
  • The Simple Touch[14]
  • Independence
  • Tommy Reilly (Scottish musician)
  • Gerry Jablonski
  • Baby Isaac
  • Black Cat Jook band
  • Bluebelly
  • Blues Deluxe
  • Boycotts
  • Colin Clyne
  • The Conspirators
  • The Gillyflowers
  • Millsyeck[15]
  • Nosmo King
  • Peski Kings
  • Retract The Accolade[16]
  • River Devils
  • Sandy Tweeddale
  • Scott MacDonald

References

  1. ↑
  2. ↑ "UK | Scotland | Tayside and Central | Stage is set for music festival". BBC News. 2008-05-30. Retrieved 2013-10-07. 
  3. ↑ Dowie, Mark. "Article - First Montrose Music Festival turns out to be big hit". Press and Journal. Retrieved 2013-10-07. 
  4. ↑ http://www.thecourier.co.uk/output/2008/06/02/newsstory11444460t0.asp
  5. ↑ "Festival boosts economy". Montrose Review. 2008-06-12. Retrieved 2013-10-07. 
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  7. ↑ georgia-crawl.co.uk
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  9. ↑ Name (required) (2009-11-03). "The Kashmir Red Interview". Flares n Seagulls. Retrieved 2013-10-07. 
  10. ↑ "Deacon Blue for Montrose". Montrose Review. 2009-02-12. Retrieved 2013-10-07. 
  11. ↑ "Tickets sell in 20 minutes". Montrose Review. 2009-02-19. Retrieved 2013-10-07. 
  12. ↑ "Previous Gigs". Doghouseroses.org. Retrieved 2013-10-07. 
  13. ↑ "Montrose Music Festival". Montrose Music Festival. Retrieved 2013-10-07. 
  14. ↑
  15. ↑ "Millsyeck". Facebook. 2013-09-10. Retrieved 2013-10-07. 
  16. ↑ "Retract The Accolade". Facebook. Retrieved 2013-10-07. 

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