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PORT ELIOT FESTIVAL St Germans Cornwall 26th-29th July 2018
Posted: February 23, 2018 in FESTIVALS, MUSICTags: Cornwall, Port Eliot Festival, St Germans
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PORT ELIOT FESTIVAL – St Germans Cornwall 27th-20th July 2017
Posted: February 28, 2017 in FESTIVALS, MUSICTags: Cornwall, Port Eliot Festival, St Germans
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.
PORT ELIOT FESTIVAL – St Germans, Cornwall 28th -31st July 2016
Posted: July 28, 2016 in FESTIVALS, MUSICTags: Cornwall, Port Eliot Festival
Our music line-up has been carefully selected to provide the perfect soundtrack to the festival. As the tempo of the festival waxes and wanes over the weekend, so too does the music, as we run the gamut of genres – from chilled out folk and ambient electronica to foot stompin’ honky tonk and floor filling party starters.
Featuring Andrew Weatherall, Erol Alkan, Beth Orton, NZCA Lines, Sam Lee & Friends, Bo Ningen, Adam Green, Night Beats, Bill Ryder Jones, Gwenno, Sidestepper, Imarhan and many more.
Words have always been at the heart of Port Eliot and this year we scale new heights. We’ll explore the theme of words through an illustrious line-up of writers, thinkers and performers as they pair up to chew the fat.
Noel Fielding will be in conversation with Whithnail & I writer and director Bruce Robinson; Dawn French will be interviewed by Miranda Sawyer; Sonic Youth’s Kim Gordon will discuss her work with Jamie Brisick; Gloria Steinem will recall her life on the road with our founder Cathy St Germans; Isy Suttie will interview Sara Pascoe about her book Animal; Michael Morpurgo will reveal the inspiration behind his best selling novels to Chris Cleave, and Jesse Armstrong (creator of Peep Show and The Thick of It) will be in conversation with fellow comedy writer and Emmy Award winner David Quantick.
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This year’s comedy line-up is side splittingly good with Sara Pascoe, Isy Suttie, Mitch Benn, James Acaster, Jeremy Hardy, Kernow King, Tony Law, Mik Artistik, Murray Lachlan-Young and Henry Normal adding a little hilarity to the festival.
PORT ELIOT FESTIVAL St Germans, Cornwall 28th-31st July 2016
Posted: March 24, 2016 in FESTIVALS, MUSICTags: Cornwall, Port Eliot Festival
PORT ELIOT FESTIVAL Cornwall 28th-31st July 2016
Posted: February 5, 2016 in FESTIVALS, MUSICTags: Cornwall, Port Eliot Festival
“It’s like falling from the sky into a magic garden where you will be constantly surprised and delighted; where you can drink, dance, discuss, dress up, camp, explore, get lost, fall asleep under the stars to the sound of Andrew Weatherall, and wake up to the ringing of church bells.”
Port Eliot is a festival unlike any other. When you come to Port Eliot, we welcome you as our guests. Our home is your playground for one magical weekend and nothing makes us happier than seeing you explore the Estate. Whether you’re swimming in the estuary, picnicking under a 300 year old tree, rocking out at the Park Stage, canoeing on the river, catching an intimate gig in the church, watching a cooking demo in the Big Kitchen or dancing ‘till the wee hours in the Boogie Round – our home is yours for the weekend.
We invite you to our little corner of Cornwall from July 28th to July 31st when we’ll celebrate words, music, imagination, ideas, nature, food, fashion, flowers, laughter, exploration, fun and all that is good in the world!
We look forward to welcoming you to Port Eliot.
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