Mull of Kintyre Music Festival Tickets - Count Down

[Mack]

JUST TO HIGHLIGHT THAT THE TICKETS GO ON SALE ON THURSDAY 16TH JUNE 2011.

THIS IS A WEEK EARLIER THAN NORMAL.

BE SURE AND GET YOURS EARLY.

[IainJ]

The 2011 Mull of Kintyre Music Festival on August 18th – 21st has once again secured a great line-up of acts whilst also adding a new concert on the Saturday night of the event. The Festival committee is delighted to announce that The Bootleg Beatles, The Karen Matheson Band, Fergie MacDonald, Jamie Smith’s Mabon, Ali Hutton & Kevin O’Neil, Lorne MacDougall’s Hello World Band and The Fillers will headline this year’s concerts.

The Bootleg Beatles, described by Graham Norton as “the biggest tribute band in the world”, will perform with their brass and strings section to give a show that covers the early Beatles Rock n Roll years through their Sgt Pepper era and on to their final recordings. The support band will be The Twisted Melons who will take the audience into the Beatles era with a retro set of music from the sixties, seventies and a little bit more at a concert that will provide a high point for festival revelers who are being encouraged to dress up, dance and sing along by the Festival organisers.

Headlining the new Saturday Night concert in the Campbeltown Heritage Centre will be The Karen Matheson Band featuring four members of Celtic super group Capercaillie. Karen will be supported by well known singer songwriter Jim Malcolm former vocalist with the Old Blind Dogs and Susanne Houston who sang at the Festival Ceilidh night two years ago. Arthur Johnstone will MC this new concert with it’s blacked out windows and new cushioned seating which will help showcase and complement the artists. This new vocal based concert replaces the event which was held in the Campbeltown Picture House until 2009.

The Ceilidh night on Friday 19th August features the return of The Fergie MacDonald Band who returns this year due to public demand. Outstanding Welsh band Jamie Smith’s Mabon who play the concert set are regarded as one of the most exciting bands to emerge on the festival scene for many years proving this with a fantastic set in Glasgow's renowned Celtic Connections festival in January. Opening the concert set will be local band Ceann Tir featuring Kay Johnston (vocals), Ross Kennedy (guitar, bouzouki & vocals) and Lorne MacDougall (pipes, flute & whistle).

The Dalriada Connections Concert in the Campbeltown Heritage Centre on Sunday 21st August will again be sponsored by Mitchell's Glengyle Distillery. This year it features Ali Hutton & Kevin O’Neil from the Treacherous Orchestra and Lorne MacDougall’s Hello World Band. Expect the usual mixture of local and visiting musicians at an event which has become one of the festivals hidden gems.

Firm Festival favourite, The Young Folk Night starts the event on Thursday 18th and top Killers tribute band The Fillers finish it as headline act at Survivors’ Night on Sunday 21st.

Tickets will be on sale from TicketWeb at http://www.ticketweb.co.uk or phone 08444 771 000 and A.P. Taylors (Thu and Fri nights & Sun afternoon only) on June 16th. For more details please go to the Festival Web Site at http://www.mokfest.com or email: mokfest@hotmail.co.uk

Iain