The news is finally in! We’re very pleased to reveal the first wave of acts and artists that will be heading to Cornwall for this year’s festival.
There are many more to be announced over the coming weeks and months, but the first of the bunch include beloved singer-songwriter Nick Lowe; Kate Stables’s highly acclaimed This Is The Kit; Booker Prize-shortlisted novelist Michèle Roberts; best-selling food writer and chef Gizzi Erskine; and Andrew Weatherall and Sean Johnston’s cosmic combination A Love from Outer Space.
It’s been 50 years since the original Summer of Love, and we think it’s fair to say that right now, we could all do with another! We’ll be celebrating its 50th anniversary at the festival, and our beautiful new artwork is a signal of things to come. It was created especially for us by celebrated ’60s countercultural artist and designer Nigel Waymouth, who founded the enduringly influential Kings Road boutique, Granny Takes a Trip.
In Nigel Waymouth’s words: “I’m very happy and honoured to have been asked to design the graphic artwork for the festival. Port Eliot has a special quality to it. It’s very intimate in its friendliness. I’m very much hoping to be there this year, the 50th anniversary of the Summer of Love, and maybe give another talk about that time.”
We’ll be revealing plenty more about our #SummerofLove at #PortEliot2017 in the coming weeks.
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