Port Eliot Festival taking place between 30th July 2nd August 2015, has announced the first details of the 2015 line-up. The Caught By the River stage line-up includes: Archie Bronson Outfit, Awesome Tapes From Africa, Kurt Jackson and John Sauven, Stealing Sheep, Chris Watson, Andrew Weatherall, John Andrews, Virginia and Florence Astley, Patrick Barkham, Bizarre Rituals, Andy Childs, Mathew Clayton, Tim Dee & Philip Marsden, Remembered For A While: A Nick Drake Companion Folklore Tapes, Pete Fowler, Fumaca Preta, Gwenno, The Harlequin Dynamite Marching Band, The Heavenly Jukebox, Hooton Tennis Club, Richard King, Clive Langer and the Clang Group, The London Sound Survey, John Lewis Stempel, Nina Lyon, Matthew and Me, Trevor Moss and Hannah-Lou, Katharine Norbury, Marcus O’Dair, Red River Dialect, Rob St. John, Emma Warren, Jane Weaver, Roy Wilkinson’s Pop & Nature Quiz.

Plus Resident DJ: Stephen ‘Spoonful’ Parker. Also featuring Totnes’s beloved Drift Record Shop.

Taking place each summer in the woodland gardens and park of an ancient stately home and mediaeval monastery in south east Cornwall, Port Eliot Festival remains a rare original, an event which “runs the gamut from endearingly pseudish to singularly brilliant”. The festival is hard to pin down – recent years have seen Barbara Hulanicki leading a fashion drawing masterclass for children; Kate Winslet performing a Sunday morning children’s story; Tracy Chevalier discussing her love of trees; Dominic West hosting a spelling bee; Britain’s finest wildlife sound recordist, Chris Watson, presenting a ‘nature disco’; and Martin Scorsese handpicking the film programme.

The full line-up will be announced soon, including The Wardrobe Department (curated by the British Fashion Council’s Ambassador for Emerging Talent, Sarah Mower); the Flower & Fodder Show; stages curated by The Idler magazine, digital literary magazine Five Dials and combined book and knitting blog dovegreyreader; and all manner of one-off and unscheduled events inside the House and all over the woodland gardens and park.

Port Eliot Festival – 30 July – 2 August 2015

Tickets 

Child and family tickets all available. Children 7 and under free.

Day tickets: Starting at £50 for adults, available online.