Belladrum has announced the first wave of acts selected for the goNORTH Seedlings Stage at Belladrum Tartan Heart Festival 2013.

"We are delighted to have programmed the majority of the goNORTH Seedlings Stage from our 2013 Showcase List", said goNORTH Director for Music, Shaun Arnold."Belladrum is a key festival on the wider Scottish calendar, and has developed a fantastic reputation for supporting new artists to develop their audience".

"It's another fantastic year for unsigned and emerging talent at Bella", added Festival Director Joe Gibbs. "the majority of these acts can be found at the goNORTH Seedlings Stage which has become a mecca for people seeking the next wave of music talent coming from the Highlands and wider Scotland."

GoNorth Seedlings Stage 2013

CLEAVERS
PRIDES
CASUAL SEX
ROIMAN NOSE
BLOOD RELATIVES
RED RONSON
RANALD
DYLAN TIERNEY
CRYSTAL SEAGULLS
THREE BLIND WOLVES
GARDEN OF ELKS
FAT GOTH
ST. MAX AND THE FANATICS
FAKE MAJOR
STATE OF FLUX
BEAR ARMS
LITTLE FIRE
LIONEL

Manchester indie legends James and Glasgow rock prodigies Twin Atlantic have been booked to headline along with an exciting and wide-ranging list of other acts including: Seasick Steve, The Pigeon Detectives, The Straits - former members of Dire Straits; the British band Noisettes; stellar garage rockers The Horrors; King Charles and Scots indie artists Admiral Fallow; Rumours of Fleetwood Mac and Celtic rockers Peatbog Faeries who played the first Belladrum Festival way back in 2004; acoustic-folk-hip hop artist Lucy Spraggan and emerging soul artist Jacob Banks, fresh from touring with Emile Sande; Scots folk star Dougie MacLean with folk legend Martin Carthy; Celtic artist Julie Fowlis, Gavin James, an impressive young singer-songwriter from Ireland and Rick Redbeard of the Phantom Band; pagan pop-folk all-girl trio Stealing Sheep and gentle Geordie jazzy swingy country troupe Shipcote and Friends; It’s A Beautiful Day, created during San Francisco’s 1967 ‘Summer of Love;’ folk rockers Treetop Flyers who won Glastonbury’s 2011 emerging talent competition; Scotland’s much loved Celtic rockers, PAWS, Andy Burrows,The Dangleberries; Jericho Hill – three ex-punks and a cowboy playing Johnny Cash; Victorian Trout Conspiracy, great ska from Edinburgh; Scotland’s most tipped unsigned band, Fatherson; local heroes Scooty and the Skyhooks, Brown Bear and the Bandits from Largs. Skerryvore, Feis Rois, Caledonian Ceilidh Trail and Toby Michaels Rolling Damned from the Highlands

Belladrum Tartan Heart Festival 2013 takes place at Belladrum Estate, Belladrum, By Beaul , Highland, between Fri 2nd to Sat 3rd August 2013 tickets on sale here

Prices have been pegged at 2012 levels. Booking fees have been reduced on e-tickets and a new ticket deposit scheme has been introduced for customers wishing to buy full weekend tickets in installments. Bella has sold out each of the last four years, often months before the event so fans are urged to buy early to avoid disappointment.

The 2013 theme is ‘Carnival’, in keeping with the birthday party atmosphere the milestone event is bound to create. A video of the 2012 event created by Tom Welsh from Deluxe.com, Edinburgh, can be seen on the event’s web site.

Belladrum 2013 takes place in the beautiful Highland surroundings of Belladrum Estate, near Beauly in Inverness-shire. The independent festival has built a reputation for its eclectic line-ups, its offbeat non-musical entertainments and its all-ages approach. The festival won a VisitScotland Thistle Award in 2009 and is a past winner of the Grassroots Festival Award at the UK Festival Awards, the festival industry’s ‘oscars’.