2012 Dates announced!

Midsummer Music 2012 will run from Friday, June 22nd to Sunday, June 24th.

After the quite spectacular success of 2011's musical extravaganza, we are currently working out the lineup for 2012.  Lots of exciting names being bandied about, and the usual heady brew of established national acts and up and coming local brilliance.  Watch this space!

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 2011

What can we say?  It just keeps getting better!  This year we hardly want to tell you who's playing because it just sounds like bragging.  Oh, go  on then: Read on... to find out why Gatehouse of Fleet is truly the only place to be this Summer Solstice. Stonehenge?  Pah!