The 2007 farmers’ market-style food marquee was one of the many hits of the inaugural Connect Music festival, at Inveraray Castle. The Marquee offered a range of ready to eat local produce, from Barbreck roast beef and Lochfyne Oyster’s salmon rolls and kippers, Inverloch cheeses and Kingscross Herbs vegetarian dishes thus significantly broadening the range of foods commonly served at festivals.
Geoff Ellis, director of festival organiser DF concerts, said, “Over the last couple of years people are more and more concerned about what they are eating, where it comes from, and how it is produced. We support this, and working with Argyll Food Producers allows us to offer a range of locally sourced high quality produce, some of which has not been offered to people attending a music festival before”.
Geoff Ellis said, “At 2008 Hydro Connect we are creating something really special and the feedback we received last year from music fans and from food producers told us that it had been a really big success”.
The feedback was so good that the Argyll Food Producers are now booked in to return to the Hydro Connect festival. The producers will also sell their produce for the first time at T in the Park, which annually pulls in 80,000 fans.
The Argyll Food Producers have formed a group, with the support of the Argyll and Bute Agricultural Forum. The Forum is a rural partnership of farmers and other interested agencies which aims to help sustainable agriculture and crofting in Argyll and the Islands. Fergus Younger, who started two years ago as development manager for the forum, sees the Hydro Connect music festival as an alternative route for spreading the message to an audience that might otherwise miss out...
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Some Images From Rockness 2008
Some Images From T In The Park 2008
