A few folk have been asking for the dates of the festival in 2008.
The festival is always the weekend before the Cowal Games - which itself is always the last Saturday of August. In 2008 Cowal is on Sat 30th so the festival will run from Thu 21 to Sun 24 Aug.
The Cowal thing makes it appear as if we keep changing the dates. What happens is - like this year - when the last day of August is a Friday then Cowal is on Sat 25th so the festival has to go as early as the 18th.
Hope this explains it and that you all manage to get your holidays etc sorted out okay!