The Tartan Heart Festival is a music festival, held on the Belladrum Estate near Inverness, in Scotland. It is normally held at the start of August. Founded in 2004, the festival has rapidly grown in popularity.
Background information
The festival is well known for its wide ranging musical scope, as well as its family friendly atmosphere, with a large dedicated family camp-site, as well as free entry for children under the age of 12.
Previous acts that have played at the festival include Embrace, The Automatic, The Proclaimers, The Wombats, Travis, Tom Jones and many more.
As well as the main stages, there are a wide range of stalls and fringe acts, including one-man bands, alternative therapy tents, barbers, yoga and dance tuition, and the Miniscule of Sound, presenting itself as The World's Smallest Niteclub.
Tartan heart fringe
Fringe
As well As the festival itself there is also a Festival fringe which centres around the 2 weeks surrounding the festival.
This usually finishes in the early hours of Hootananny's on the Thursday prior to the festival.
The fringe's gigs have no entry-fee in some bars/pubs however others may charge, the fringe showcases a variety of Acts and Music Genres.
The Fringe sets the mood in the run up to Belladrum Tartan Heart Festival on 8 and 9 August 2008, offering a musical trail around the Highlands for the intrepid music lover.
2004
2004 was the first year of the Tartan Heart Festival and ran for only one day - 14 August 2004 [1]
Garden Stage
| Friday 14 August |
- Linda Gail Lewis & The Lewis Three
- The Grim Northern Social
- The Andy Gunn Band & Geno Washington
- James Grant & Friends
- Karen Matheson & Donald Shaw of Capercaillie
- The Lush Rollers
- The Peatbog Faeries
- The David Ogilvy Band
- Totó la Momposina
- Dionyssus
- Mystic Shoes
- Winners of the Hootananny's Battle of the Bands Competition
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2005
In 2005 the festival was on Friday the 12th & Saturday the 13th of August. This year it had five stages, ranging in size from the Grassroots Tent, which has a capacity of approximately 250 and is dedicated to small acoustic and folk acts, through to the Garden Stage, which is a natural amphitheatre that can hold several thousand people
In 2005, new features include the Seedlings Stage for new or unsigned artists and the Venus Flytrap Palais, a stage totally dedicated to the wonderful and sometimes, frankly, weird in music, theatre, cabaret and performance art.[2]
Garden Stage
| Friday 12 August | Saturday 13 August |
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Hothouse Stage
| Friday 12 August | Saturday 13 August |
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The Black Isle brewery Grassroots Stage
| Friday 12 August | Saturday 13 August |
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- Michael Marra
- Unholy Trinity - Ronnie Elliott, Terry Clarke & Wes McGhee
- Andy Gunn
- Foy Vance
- Heather MacLeod
- Calamateur
- Craig Anderson
- Ruth Sutherland
- Davy Cowan
- Feis Rois Ceilidh Band
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2006
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Garden Stage
| Friday 11 August | Saturday 12 August |
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Hothouse Stage
| Friday 11 August | Saturday 12 August |
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The Black Isle brewery Grassroots Stage
| Friday 11 August | Saturday 12 August |
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Hail Seedlings Stage
| Friday 11 August | Saturday 12 August |
- The Rites
- Edgar Prais
- Our Small Capital
- Magdalen Green
- Endor
- The Galipaygos
- Employee of the Month
- Shutter
- Call to Mind
- Copy Haho
- Beerjacket
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- Jyrojets
- Drive-by Argument
- Invisbles
- Pop-up
- Marshall Arts
- Vivian Scotson
- The Side
- Hussys
- Mouse Eat Mouse
- Michael Rattray
- The Now
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Venus Flytrap Palais
| Friday 11 August | Saturday 12 August |
- I Can't Handle Me' Chantale MacCormick
- Jamboree/Wardrobe of Delights
- The Ralfe Band
- Hot Potato Syncopators
- Joe West
- The Laundrettas
- Kid Carpet
- Attic Lights
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- Flash Monkey & Rev Rum Tum Ti Bum Bum
- iLiKETRAiNS
- Illicit
- Session A9
- Puppetry of the Pops (Nathan Evans)
- Mama's Brand New Bag
- Meg & Peg Go To The Fest (The Reduced IMPs)
- Mark Dean - the Yodelling Mix Meister
- Cape Reality (Jeep Solid & Graeme Roger)
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2007
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Garden Stage
| Friday 10 August | Saturday 11 August |
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Hothouse Stage
| Friday 10 August | Saturday 11 August |
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The Black Isle brewery Grassroots Stage
| Friday 10 August | Saturday 11 August |
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Hail Seedlings Stage
| Friday 10 August | Saturday 11 August |
- The Needles
- Theatre Fall
- Sergeant
- The Wallbirds
- Lowtide Revelry
- Luva Anna
- Strike the Colours
- Micheal MacLennan
- Haight Ashbury
- Brendan Campbell
- Caley Ceilidh Trail
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- Action Group
- The Vivians
- Make Model
- Figure 5
- Le Reno Amps
- Our Luna Activities
- Foxface
- Baxter
- Sorren MacLean
- FiveFifteen
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Venus Flytrap Palais
| Friday 10 August | Saturday 11 August |
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- Invernetian Masked Ball/ Secret Chamber Orchestra
- Club Noir & The Martians in the intermission
- Tunng
- Murdina Morag - The Musical with the Love Pylons
- Kate Nash
- Fake Bush
- Orchestre del Sol
- The Seven Plots by R.I.P.
- Ox.Eagle.Lion.Man
- The White Cat/ Jaberwocky
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2008
2008 saw the Tartan Heart Festival win the award for the best Grass Roots Festival (2008)[5]
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Garden Stage
| Friday 8 August | Saturday 9 August |
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Hothouse Stage
| Friday 8 August | Saturday 9 August |
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The Black Isle brewery Grassroots Stage
| Friday 8 August | Saturday 9 August |
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- Edwyn Collins
- Pete Wylie
- Lisa Knapp
- Wallbirds
- Dennis Hopper Choppers
- Agnostic Mountain Gospel Choir
- The Mercury Men
- Wynntown Marshalls
- Jake Cogan
- Feis Rois
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Hail Seedlings Stage
| Friday 8 August | Saturday 9 August |
- Abigail Gray
- The Kazoo Funk Orchestra
- Jocasta Sleeps
- Jack Butler
- Captain and the Kings
- Root System
- 28 Jacks
- Manor Park Elite
- Battle for Bella Winners
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- Shutter
- Twin Atlantic
- Edgar Prais
- Paper Planes
- Alto Elite
- Injuns
- The Draymin
- Dotjr
- Ketimine Deco
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Venus Flytrap Palais
| Friday 8 August | Saturday 9 August |
- Baby Beat (for Kids)
- Rhythm & Rhyme (for Kids)
- Yusef Azak
- Reggae Woodland Roots
- Derek Meins
- The Blank Album
- Orchestra del Sol
- The Cyriac Review Cabaret Show (Adult Only)
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- Baby Beat (for Kids)
- Bruce Fummey (Adults Only)
- Animal Behaviour
- The Parsonage Choir
- Four On Six
- Kerieva
- Izo Fitzroy & The Royal Bastards
- The Cyriac Review Cabaret Show (Adults Only)
- The Invernetian Masked Ball (Adults Only)
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Accident
A man and a woman were taken to Raigmore Hospital on the morning of the 8th of August after a gas canister exploded inside a tipi at the festival.
Festival promoters said “we are reviewing, with the emergency services, our policy on gas cylinders in the future.” [7]
2009
The 2009 festival took place on the 7th and 8 August, and the headline acts were the Editors and Ocean Colour Scene[8]
Garden Stage
| Friday 7 August | Saturday 8 August |
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Hothouse Stage
The Black Isle brewery Grassroots Stage
| Friday 7 August | Saturday 8 August |
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- Seth Lakeman
- Aberfeldy
- The Lost Brothers
- Rory McLeod
- Sam Issac
- Phil Lee
- Ballachulish Hellhounds
- Jonathan Jeremiah
- Alex Cornish
- Feis Rois
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Hail Seedlings Stage
| Friday 7 August | Saturday 8 August |
- The Side
- Sergeant
- St Deluxe
- Flood Of Red
- Bronto Skylift
- Healthy Minds Collapse
- Cast Of The Capital
- Washington Irving
- Colour Coded
- Battle4Bella Winners
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- Our Lunar Activities
- Punch & The Apostles
- Unicorn Kid
- Party Horse
- Sucioperro
- The Naked Strangers
- Cruisers
- Cassidy
- Three Times Daily
- Battle4Bella Winners
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Potting Shed Stage
| Friday 8 August MIR FRIDAY AT 5 POTTING SHED |
Dance DJ Stage
| Friday 7 August | Saturday 8 August |
- Colin Gregory
- Robbie Dunsmore
- Araya
- Alex Tronic
- Technocelt
- Bourbon Surf
- Esko
- Frog Goes ERP
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- Colin Gregory
- Robbie Dunsmore
- Esko
- Dolphin Boy
- Plexus
- Butterscotch
- Joystick Discothèque
- Look Mum It's the DJ's
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2011
- The David Latto Band (Potting Shed Stage)
2012
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Garden Stage
| Friday 8 August | Saturday 9 August |
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Hothouse Stage
| Friday 8 August | Saturday 9 August |
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- Bobok
- Dog is Dead
- Headphone Disco
- Iain McLaughlin & The Outsiders
- Karima Francis
- Little Mill of Happiness
- Man Like me
- The Blackout
- The Milk
- Willie Campbell & The Open Day Rotation
- Zombie Militia
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