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Thu 02 Feb Pub Sessions
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We are delighted to announce details of our 2011 line-up which is our most varied and ambitious to date.  Our Friday night headliner is John Otway, post punk legend and rock maverick making a welcome return to D+G after only thirty years...  He will be ably supported by The Inflictors, the latest incarnation of the festival's musical mascot Cameron O' Hagan.  These boys have been ripping up Greater Manchester for the last year or so and have great things ahead - not least Midsummer Music!  We're also delighted to welcome local legends Quirkus, weel-kent faces all and godfathers (and mothers...) of the Galloway music scene.  Topping off Friday night with an infusion of youthful enthusiasm (or 'bloody cheek' as my father would have called it) we have up-and-coming local stars Sweet Relief, fresh from Glasgow Barrowlands and a host of other local and national gigs.

Saturday's headliner is none other than King Creosote, the majesterial musical monarch of Fife and all points beyond.  KC has revitalised the national music scene over the last decade or so with the Fence Collective, bringing good old D.I.Y back to music and providing a voice for quirky, beautiful and eclectic talent across Scotland.  Doffing a supporting cap we have Glasgow's Ideal Crash, whose sunny, harmony laden folk-pop promises to win them a big local following.  Bringing up the rear it's local indie-folk  layabouts The Geese, with their familiar mix of wit, bile, doomed romance and banjo.

There will also be our customary mix of pub sessions, the now unavoidable music cafe, various impromptu and so impossible to publicise musical happenings and a bigger, bouncier, better festival atmosphere all round.  You'd be catastrophically foolish to miss it!

 

About Midsummer Music

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!

 

 
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2011 7
2010 13
2009 8