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Saturday 20th
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Details of the Saturday of the
festival will be confirmed
shortly but promises to be
bigger and better than past
years with the Festival Parade,
Doon the Green, Burnside Bash,
Festival Sessions, Street
entertainers, the main festival
concert and the new
Saturday Night Traditional
concert. Details will
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Festival Parade,
12.30pm (FREE) -
This annual event with a
carnival atmosphere just gets
bigger and better every year.
Groups, organisations and
individuals are encouraged to
join in the fun and look out for
the
New Festival Cup award this year
as well as the usual cash prizes
for the best dressed floats.
Starting
off from the esplanade and
travelling through Campbeltown's
historic Main Street and Longrow,
the Festival Parade is not to be
missed!
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Doon the Green,
1.00pm
(FREE) -
We are looking forward to a bit
of sun again this year and more
bands on stage than ever in our
expanded afternoon extravaganza.
Cabin Fever from Mid Argyll will
headline this event with
children’s entertainment being
provided by the Funky Chicken
and her helpers.
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Confirmed for 2011!
The Mull of Kintyre Music
Festival committee are delighted
to announce that the Bootleg
Beatles will headline the
all standing concert on Saturday
20th August.
Described by Graham Norton as
“the biggest tribute band in the
world”, they will take a trip
down the original long and
winding road. The band has
already stated that they can
hardly wait to visit Campbeltown
and the Mull of Kintyre which is
also the title of the hit penned
by Paul McCartney.
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Confirmed and NEW for 2011!
The new
Saturday Night Traditional
concert
will be held in the Campbeltown
Heritage Centre and will have
new cushioned seating installed
upstairs for this year’s
Festival. The management
committee of the Festival also
intends to black out the windows
to help create an atmosphere in
the venue that will complement
the bands that will perform
there. Headlining the concert
will be The Karen Matheson Band
featuring 4 members of Celtic
super group Capercaillie, Jim
Malcolm former vocalist with the
Old Blind Dogs will play
support. Arthur Johnstone will
MC the concert which will
feature one more act which is
TBC. This new vocal based
concert replaces the event which
was held in the Campbeltown
Picture House until 2009.
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