If you go down to the woods today…
In April 2009 the owners of Inshriach House, Ord Ban Restaurant, The Old Bridge Inn and Backwoods Productions decided to have a party. They had a venue, a bunch of friends and just 6 weeks to convince the cream of Scottish folk and contemporary artists they were serious. They sprinkled in the finest local food, washed it down with tasty ales and called it The Insider.
The Insider returns in 2010, kicking off on the 17th June with a Festival of Firewood - a free public day organised in conjunction with the Cairngorms National Park promoting renewable resources and woodcraft - then continues from the 18th to the 20th with the festival proper.
We feel it is our duty to once again dish up the most talented of home grown musicians and serve them alongside the finest food in the valley, with whisky galore, welly-wanging, spit-roasts and bonfires, pimms on the lawn, cake-fights, lasers in the woods, ping-pong and sing songs the whole night long.
But we won’t stop there… we are also throwing in river adventures, workshops, storytelling; a whole new stage, a slew of incredible new bands, yurts-galore and a heavy dash of Insider magic…
Set in the gardens and grounds of the Inshriach estate, with a backdrop of the Cairngorm Mountains, the Insider promises to be a bohemian highland garden party of truly adventurous proportions.
The sun will shine again, folk will swim in the Spey (quite against the instructions of our health and safety division!) and bonfires and impromptu woodland piano jams will light up the night.
Line-up so far, in no particular order –
Sparrow and the Workshop
Jo Mango
Admiral Fallow
Charlie McKerron & Friends
Bob Hillary and the Massive Mellow
Mary Hampton
Mike and Solveig
Mike and Georgia Heron
The Injuns
Claes Cem
Mr&Mrs Smith
Rachel Sermanni
King Arthurs Men
Washington Irving
DolphinBoy
Donna Maciocia
Mike Nisbet
The Banana Sessions
Blue Rose Code
Horndog Brass Band
Joe Acheson Quartet
Three Blind Wolves
The Woodland Orchestra
Matt Bennett (Kinky Afro)
Dj Astroboy
Trembling Bells
Mammals
Woodenbox with a Fistful of Fivers
The French Wives
John Langan Band
Feis Spe
Jack Sandison and The Holy Ghosts
The Stagger Rats
Over The Wall
Steven Milne
Infrasound
Early Grey and the Loose Leaves
Alasdair Roberts
The Boy Who Trapped The Sun
Kill It Kid
The Bonfire Band
Chris Bradley
The Breaks
The Hundred Metre Club
Robin Lewis Adams
ProVinylistKarim
The Little Kicks
Brawth
StreetThunder
Gecko3
“anarchic, beautiful, otherworldly and above all, really great craic. Leave your woes behind and hit the Insider – you won’t regret it!” Aidan O’Rourke (Lau)
“could the Insider be the best Scottish music festival this summer?” STV
“it’s really refreshing to see this truly independent festival coming back for a second year… if last years line-up is anything to go by then we are in for a treat” Peenko
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t. 07881 906 333
e. walter@inshriachhouse.com
Inshriach House, the B970, by Aviemore PH22 1QP