Long years ago in the dark distant past, Gatehouse of Fleet in the heart of Galloway played host to a noted grassroots festival which attracted musicians from around the country.

These epic shindigs would span a whole week and even had a shady offspring in the shape of an annual beer festival. For some reason  however, the Gatehouse festival dwindled and fell from the bough like a patchouli-scented autumn leaf, to fade into legend and obscurity.  Except...

The comeback kid

… a small band of devoted followers headed by the angelic Susi Woodmass kept the flame alive, and in 2007 the Gatehouse Festival made a tentative comeback.

The following year that comeback had nothing tentative about it as, like a phoenix from the ashes, Midsummer Music leapt into the public consciousness and produced a blinding solstice weekend of hooks, hedonism and home baking.

With a weekend of pub sessions hosted by the cream of local talent (and refreshed by the cream of local beer), not to mention a sellout Saturday night concert which saw lo-fi songsmithery mingled with adrenaline filled folk-punk, the Festival staked a claim on the summer music circuit that was not to be ignored.

And so to 2010

This year Midsummer Music returns, bigger, better and bouncier. We’ve taken all the good bits from last year’s triumph (which, frankly, was most of it) and we’ve added some extras just for you! Read on... to find out why Gatehouse of Fleet is truly the only place to be this Summer Solstice. Stonehenge? Pah!