Tartan Heart Festival

The Belladrum Tartan Heart Festival is an annual music and arts festival, held on the Belladrum Estate in Kiltarlity, Scotland. The festival was founded in 2004. In 2022 it attracted 20,000 attendees.^[1]

Tartan Heart Festival
Genre	Alternative, indie, folk
Dates	Second weekend in August
Location(s)	Kiltarlity, Scotland
Years active	2004 - present
Capacity	25,000
Website	http://www.tartanheartfestival.co.uk

Background information

The festival is well known^{[by whom?]} for its wide-ranging musical scope, as well as its family friendly atmosphere, with a large dedicated family camp-site, as well as free entry for children under the age of 12. Previous acts that have played at the festival include Madness, Tom Jones, Two Door Cinema Club, Kaiser Chiefs, Ed Sheeran, Ben Howard, James, Manic Street Preachers, Deacon Blue, Texas Embrace, The Automatic, The Proclaimers, The Wombats, Travis, and many more.

Stages include, The Garden Stage (Main Stage set in Italian Gardens), The Hot House (Rock Indie, Alternative, Singer-songwriter), The Grassroots (folk, roots, acoustic), Venus Flytrap (comedy, wrestling, cabaret), The Seedlings (emerging and buzz new acts), Mother's Ruin (Dance and Electronic), The Verb Garden (talks, debates, films), The Burke and Hare (cabaret, performance, dj's), The Bella Bar stage, Free Range Folk Stage (singer-songwriters, traditional, acoustic based bands), Jazz Bar (new for 2016) and an array of busking stages.

Other areas of the festival include a dedicated children's area, with puppet workshops, arts and crafts, circus skills, dance and music classes and much more. The Walled Garden hosts a variety of alternative therapies, the Burke & Hare and Free Rage Folk stages, and re-enactment groups.

Over the years the festival has also hosted Ice-rinks, roller discos, Danny Maccaskills Drop & Roll, and a zip line.

The festival has a tradition of selecting a theme and organisers encourage revellers to don fancy dress on the Saturday. Previous themes have been:

2023 - Cartoons

2022 - Myths and Legends

2021 - [cancelled due to covid]

2020 - [cancelled due to covid]

2019 - Science Fiction

2018 - Bollywood

2017 - Summer of Love

2016 - Superstition

2015 - Superheroes

2014 - Wild Life

2013 - Carnival

2012 - Royalty

2011 - Space

2010 - Wonderland

Tartan heart fringe

Fringe

In previous years as well as the festival itself there was also a Festival fringe which centered around the 2 weeks surrounding the festival. This finished in the early hours of Hootananny's on the Thursday prior to the festival. The fringe's gigs had no entry-fee in some bars/pubs however others may charge, the fringe showcased a variety of Acts and Music Genres. The Fringe set the mood in the run up to Belladrum Tartan Heart Festival on 8 and 9 August 2008, offering a musical trail around the Highlands for the intrepid music lover.

2004

The festival began in 2004 with 2,000 people attending for one day in Belladrum's Italian Gardens, the terraced arena that now acts as the Garden Stage. Since then, the capacity has grown 18,500 people over two and a half days (3 - 5 August 2017), with an additional headliner being added to the ceilidh warm up on the Thursday night in 2015.

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Garden Stage

Friday 14 August

Linda Gail Lewis & The Lewis Three The Grim Northern Social The Andy Gunn Band & Geno Washington James Grant & Friends Karen Matheson & Donald Shaw of Capercaillie The Lush Rollers The Peatbog Faeries The David Ogilvy Band Totó la Momposina Dionyssus Mystic Shoes Winners of the Hootananny's Battle of the Bands Competition

2005

In 2005 the festival was on Friday 12 and Saturday 13 August. This year it had five stages, ranging in size from the Grassroots Tent, which has a capacity of approximately 250 and is dedicated to small acoustic and folk acts, through to the Garden Stage, which is a natural amphitheatre that can hold several thousand people

In 2005, new features include the Seedlings Stage for new or unsigned artists and the Venus Flytrap Palais, a stage totally dedicated to the wonderful and sometimes, frankly, weird in music, theatre, cabaret and performance art.^[3]

Garden Stage

Friday 12 August	Saturday 13 August
Alabama 3 The Bees Emiliana Torrini The Duhks Stetsonhead El Presidente Pulse Winners	The Proclaimers The Peatbog Faeries British Sea Power Aberfeldy Ricky Ross The Country Joe Band Karine Polwart Baka Beyond Galipaygos

Hothouse Stage

Friday 12 August	Saturday 13 August
Jah Wobble The Black Velvets Editors Exist Endrick Brothers Ruthless Blues The Sundowns	The Bluetones Trashcan Sinatras Mohair Brakes The Cinematics Poor Old Ben The Jim Hunter Band Dexter Ardoine & The Creole Ramblers The Hazey Janes

The Black Isle brewery Grassroots Stage

Friday 12 August	Saturday 13 August
Andy White Karl Broadie Band Alex Ryan Jason Ringenberg Wadada The Hotlicks Cookies N'Faly Kouyate Gypsy Dave Smith	Michael Marra Unholy Trinity - Ronnie Elliott, Terry Clarke & Wes McGhee Andy Gunn Foy Vance Heather MacLeod Calamateur Craig Anderson Ruth Sutherland Davy Cowan Feis Rois Ceilidh Band

2006

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Garden Stage

Friday 11 August	Saturday 12 August
Echo & the Bunnymen Mark Saul Mystery Jets Lee Scratch Perry The Cinematics Camera Obscura Union Avenue The Hazey Janes	Embrace Bellowhead Bell X1 The Automatic Dreadzone Arlo Guthrie The Vatersay Boys Batucada Sound Machine Dangleberries

Hothouse Stage

Friday 11 August	Saturday 12 August
Red Hot Poker Session: Andrew MacDonald Biffy Clyro Guillemots 3 Daft Monkeys Forward Russia The Young Knives The Rumble Strips Cord The Green Machine Paddy Rasta	The Eco Policeman's Ball(Featuring Dolphin Boy) The Wonder Stuff King Creosote Morning Runner Seth Lakeman Tiny Dancers The View Vincent Vincent and the Villains Stereoglo Acoustic Love Experience

The Black Isle brewery Grassroots Stage

Friday 11 August	Saturday 12 August
Global Cooling Session: The Shortwave Set Chris Difford Culture Clash Unkle Bob Shipcote Seasick Steve David Ogilvy Scott MacDonald The Moonshiners Claire Campbell Caley Ceilidh Trail Band	Global Cooling Session: Grandadbob Stephen Fretwell Breaks Co-Op The Puppini Sisters Martin Stephenson & The Toerags Charlotte Gordon Cumming Luke Toms I See Hawks in LA & Tony Gilkyson Errol Linton Tom Morton Hobotalk Feis Ross

Hail Seedlings Stage

Friday 11 August	Saturday 12 August
The Rites Edgar Prais Our Small Capital Magdalen Green Endor The Galipaygos Employee of the Month Shutter Call to Mind Copy Haho Beerjacket	Jyrojets Drive-by Argument Invisibles Pop-up Marshall Arts Vivian Scotson The Side Hussys Mouse Eat Mouse Michael Rattray The Now

Venus Flytrap Palais

Friday 11 August	Saturday 12 August
I Can't Handle Me' Chantale MacCormick Jamboree/Wardrobe of Delights The Ralfe Band Hot Potato Syncopators Joe West The Laundrettas Kid Carpet Attic Lights	Flash Monkey & Rev Rum Tum Ti Bum Bum iLiKETRAiNS Illicit Session A9 Puppetry of the Pops (Nathan Evans) Mama's Brand New Bag Meg & Peg Go To The Fest (The Reduced IMPs) Mark Dean - the Yodelling Mix Meister Cape Reality (Jeep Solid & Graeme Roger)

2007

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Garden Stage

Friday 10 August	Saturday 11 August
Magic Numbers Alabama 3 The Peatbog Faeries Ghosts Jackie Leven, Robert Fisher, Michael Weston King The Law Nuru Kane Crash My Model Car Jazz On The Lawn - Four On Six	James The Ring Of Fire Misty In Roots The Hoosiers Fred Morrison The Dykeenies Dangleberries The Parsonage Choir Beat That

Hothouse Stage

Friday 10 August	Saturday 11 August
Julian Cope Nine Black Alps 1990s Martha Wainwright The Earlies Phil and Ally Jyrojets Skilda The Lorelei	Pigeon Detectives Mumm Ra Scouting for Girls Bens Brother Pete & The Pirates String Driven Thing Polytechnic Babel Paul Steel

The Black Isle brewery Grassroots Stage

Friday 10 August	Saturday 11 August
Red Hot Poker Session: Skibunny DJ Sandi Thom Amy MacDonald Tom Russell Angus & Julia Stone 6 Day Riot Lisa Haley & The Zydekats Nick Harper Ben Taylor Jaymay Gypsy Dave Smith with Retro Smith	Red Hot Poker Session: Oom Lloyd Cole Duke Special Wreckless Eric & Amy Rigby Martha Tilston Kris Drever Piney Gir Loomer Lach Roddy Hart James Lawton Feis Ross

Hail Seedlings Stage

Friday 10 August	Saturday 11 August
The Needles Theatre Fall Sergeant The Wallbirds Lowtide Revelry Luva Anna Strike the Colours Micheal MacLennan Haight Ashbury Brendan Campbell Caley Ceilidh Trail	Action Group The Vivians Make Model Figure 5 Le Reno Amps Our Luna Activities Foxface Baxter Sorren MacLean FiveFifteen

Venus Flytrap Palais

Friday 10 August	Saturday 11 August
Headphone Disco Flash Monkey The Strange Death of Liberal England Murdina Morag - The Musical with the Love Pylons Blazin' Fiddles Circulus Luminescent Orchestrii All Three Kingdoms by The Tartan Troubadors Slow Club The White Cat/ Jaberwocky	Invernetian Masked Ball/ Secret Chamber Orchestra Club Noir & The Martians in the intermission Tunng Murdina Morag - The Musical with the Love Pylons Kate Nash Fake Bush Orchestre del Sol The Seven Plots by R.I.P. Ox.Eagle.Lion.Man The White Cat/ Jaberwocky

2008

2008 saw the Tartan Heart Festival win the award for the best Grass Roots Festival (2008)^[6]

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Garden Stage

Friday 8 August	Saturday 9 August
Scouting For Girls Jefferson Starship One Night Only Vatersay Boys Baka Beyond Big Hand Union Avenue Leonard Jones Potential	The Waterboys Sons and Daughters Dreadzone Nouvelle Vague Salsa Celtica Attic Lights Punch and the Apostles Dangleberries Low Tide Revelry & Inverness Gaelic Choir

Hothouse Stage

Friday 8 August	Saturday 9 August
Idlewild Black Affair The Twilight Sad Red Light Company Old Blind Dogs Broken Records The Brute Chorus Frightened Rabbit Call to Mind	Cold War Kids Infadels Sergeant Kissmet Look See Proof Friends Of The Bride The Hosts The Xcerts

The Black Isle brewery Grassroots Stage

Friday 8 August	Saturday 9 August
Justin Currie Angus & Julie Stone Kathryn Williams & Neil McColl Rachel Unthank and the Winterset Southern Tenant Folk Union Pete Molinari Brendan Campbell Rosabella Gregory The Lost Brothers Calery Ceilidh Trail	Edwyn Collins Pete Wylie Lisa Knapp Wallbirds Dennis Hopper Choppers Agnostic Mountain Gospel Choir The Mercury Men Wynntown Marshalls Jake Cogan Feis Rois

Hail Seedlings Stage

Friday 8 August	Saturday 9 August
Abigail Gray The Kazoo Funk Orchestra Jocasta Sleeps Jack Butler Captain and the Kings Root System 28 Jacks Manor Park Elite Battle for Bella Winners	Shutter Twin Atlantic Edgar Prais Paper Planes Alto Elite Injuns The Draymin Dotjr Ketimine Deco

Venus Flytrap Palais

Friday 8 August	Saturday 9 August
Baby Beat (for Kids) Rhythm & Rhyme (for Kids) Yusef Azak Reggae Woodland Roots Derek Meins The Blank Album Orchestra del Sol The Cyriac Review Cabaret Show (Adult Only)	Baby Beat (for Kids) Bruce Fummey (Adults Only) Animal Behaviour The Parsonage Choir Four On Six Kerieva Izo Fitzroy & The Royal Bastards The Cyriac Review Cabaret Show (Adults Only) The Invernetian Masked Ball (Adults Only)

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2009

The 2009 festival took place on 7 and 8 August, and the headline acts were the Editors and Ocean Colour Scene^[8]

Garden Stage

Friday 7 August	Saturday 8 August
Editors Peatbog Faeries Toploader Transglobal Underground Broken Records The Joy Formidable Kid British Scooty & the Skyhooks Grousebeater Soundsystem	Ocean Colour Scene The Saw Doctors Noah & the Whale Treacherous Orchestra Kissmet Edward II The New Forbidden Dangleberries Theatre Fall

Hothouse Stage

Friday 7 August	Saturday 8 August
Shed Seven Alabama 3 *The Wallbirds Dananananaykroyd Orkestra Del Sol Little Comets Official Secrets Act The Unthanks Shutter The Holloways replaced The Wallbirds after they cancelled their appearance	British Sea Power Sons & Daughters DeVotchKa Twin Atlantic The Phantom Band Magistrates Hatcham Social 3 Daft Monkeys Sparrow & Workshop

The Black Isle brewery Grassroots Stage

Friday 7 August	Saturday 8 August
Glenn Tilbrook & Fluffers Tommy Reilly Lau Pearl and the Puppets Tommy Womack Blue Roses Babel Jo Hamilton Rebecca Hollweg Caley Ceilidh Trail	Seth Lakeman Aberfeldy The Lost Brothers Rory McLeod Sam Issac Phil Lee Ballachulish Hellhounds Jonathan Jeremiah Alex Cornish Feis Rois

Hail Seedlings Stage

Friday 7 August	Saturday 8 August
The Side Sergeant St Deluxe Flood Of Red Bronto Skylift Healthy Minds Collapse Cast Of The Capital Washington Irving Colour Coded Battle4Bella Winners	Our Lunar Activities Punch & The Apostles Unicorn Kid Party Horse Sucioperro The Naked Strangers Cruisers Cassidy Three Times Daily Battle4Bella Winners

Potting Shed Stage

Friday 8 August MIR FRIDAY AT 5 POTTING SHED

Mother's Ruin DJ Stage

Friday 7 August	Saturday 8 August
Colin Gregory Robbie Dunsmore Araya Alex Tronic Technocelt Bourbon Surf Esko Frog Goes ERP	Colin Gregory Robbie Dunsmore Esko Dolphin Boy Plexus Butterscotch Joystick Discothèque Look Mum It's the DJ's

2010

• Feeder
• Amy Macdonald
• The Wailers
• Badly Drawn Boy
• The Divine Comedy
• The Levellers
• King Creosote
• Twin Atlantic
• Candy Staton
• Dick Gaughan
• The Vatersay Boys

2011

• Texas
• Deacon Blue
• Ed Sheeran
• Ben Howard
• King Charles
• Frank Turner
• Skerryvore
• Teddy Thompson
• Vintage Trouble
• Roddy Hart & The Lonesome Fire
• The David Latto Band (Potting Shed Stage)

2012

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Garden Stage

Friday 8 August	Saturday 9 August
The Wombats We Are Scientists Kassidy The South (formerly "The Beautiful South") Vintage Trouble Red Kites James Mackenzie Hoodja Bwani Junction	Travis Frightened Rabbit Beverley Knight Treacherous Orchestra Kobi Dangleberries Federation of the Disco Pimp Bombskare Teenage Gaelic Singing Group w/Eilidh Mackenzie

Hothouse Stage

Friday 8 August	Saturday 9 August
The Buzzcocks Black Affair Foy Vance Headphone Disco Make Sparks Sweet Billy Pilgrim Fatherson The Draymin Torridon	Bobok Dog is Dead Headphone Disco Iain McLaughlin & The Outsiders Karima Francis Little Mill of Happiness Man Like me The Blackout The Milk Willie Campbell & The Open Day Rotation Zombie Militia

2013

Garden Stage (Main Stage) saw James headline along with Twin Atlantic, Pigeon Detectives, Alabama 3, Seasick Steve and many more.

Mothers Ruin Stage (DJ Stage)

Friday 2 August	Saturday 3 August
Filth DJs Ally McCrae Them & Us Mike Mcdonald Bullwhack Esbjerg Connor Bryne Alottaryhthmman	Jakk It & Saizme Sounds Clash DJs Count Clockwork Aaron Russell Alan Macpherson Digitized Shameless Alan Grant

2014

• Tom Jones
• Reef
• Frightened Rabbit
• Billy Bragg
• Glenn Tilbrook
• The Temperance Movement
• Grandmaster Flash
• Adrian Edmondson & The Bad Shepherds
• The Vatersay Boys

2015

Garden Stage (Main Stage)

Friday 7th Augustday Garden Stagei	Saturday 8 August
Manic Street Preachers Idlewild Stornoway Hayseed Dixie Prides Torridon Fun Box Head North Vigo Thieves	Kaiser Chiefs The Stranglers Martha Reeves Manran King Creosote James Brown is Annie The Dangleberries Silver Coast Dorec-a-Belle Rhythm Wave

Hothouse Stage

Friday 7 August	Saturday 8 August
Superheros Disco The Sunshine Underground Drenge JP Cooper Louis Berry Adam French The LaFontaines Model Aeroplanes Hidden Charm JuneBug	The Cuban Brothers Rival Sons Fatherson Kill it Kid Honey Blood Neon Waltz AKAska Winter Tradition Vukovi Hector Bizerk Iain McLaughlin and the Outsiders Frozen Disco (kids)

Grassroots Stage

Friday 7 August	Saturday 8 August
The Dolly Parton Story Eddi Reader Martin Stephenson & The Dainties Dizraeli and The Small Gods Blackbeards Tea Party The Skull Kids The Shee Have Mercy Las Vegas The New Madrids Siiga The Elephant Sessions Caledonian Ceilidh Trail Spinning Tots	MacFloyd Villagers John Langan Band Tantz CoCo and the Butterfields RURA Rusty Shackle Miss Irenie Rose Jamie Lawson The Goat Roper Rodeo Band Willie and Tabs MacAskil Feis Rois

2016

Garden Stage (Main Stage)

Thursday 4 August	Friday 5 August	Saturday 6 August
The Darkness Beardymans Dream Team Tiggs D'Author Main Street Blues Torridon Stephanie Urbana Jones & The New Madrids The Retrophones ft Colin Steele Woodentooth Rock Challenge	Two Door Cinema Club Super Furry Animals Bombskare Skipinnish The LaFontaines Grousebeater Sound System Fun Box Elephant Sessions James Mackenzie	Madness Wilko Johnson Donald Shaw and Diane Garisto perform: Graceland Breabach CC Smugglers The Dangleberries Spring Break Inverness Military Wives Choir

Hothouse Stage

Friday 5 August	Saturday 6 August
The Orb Alabama 3 Dreadzone Gun Whyte Astrid Man Made Catholic Action Sinderins Nieves Schnarff Schnarff	Hot Dub Time Machine Circa Waves Public Services Broadcasting Lucy Spraggan Craig Duncan The Hunna Colonel Mustard and the Dijon 5 Man of Moon Lional The Lush Rollers The Side

2017

• The Pretenders
• Franz Ferdinand
• Sister Sledge
• K T Tunstall
• First Aid Kit
• Colonel Mustard & The Dijon 5

2018

• Paloma Faith
• The Fun Lovin' Criminals
• The Charlatans
• Amy Macdonald
• Professor Green
• Ward Thomas
• Colonel Mustard & The Dijon 5
• Gerry Cinamon
• Primal Scream

2019

Garden Stage (Main Stage)

Thursday 1 August	Friday 2 August	Saturday 3 August
Luna The Professor Torridon Dodgy Tom Odell Elbow	Highland Voice Choir Lional Fun Box Swampfog Royal Sounds Elephant Sessions Dodie Johnny Marr Chvrches	Rionnagan Rois Tamzene The Dangleberries The Local Honeys Colonel Mustard and The Dijon 5 Skerryvore The Selecter Lewis Capaldi Jess Glynne

Hot House Stage

Thursday 1 August	Friday 2 August	Saturday 3 August
Stephanie Cheape The Dazed Digital Age Fat Suit Scooty and the Skyhooks Stone Broken Hawkwind	King Kobalt Indigo Velvet Vistas Paris Monster Bis King Nun BombSkare The Rezillos SOAK Glasvegas The Cuban Brothers	Josephine Sillars Black Cat Bone Man of Moon Be Charlotte PAWS The Ninth Wave Maisie Peters Self Esteem The Sugarhill Gang (Did not perform) The Coral

2022

The Belladrum Tartan Heart Festival returned to Scotland^[10] on 28 July 2022 with the festival featuring performances from The Magic Numbers,^[11] Tide Lines,^[12] Daytime TV, Emeli Sandé,^[13] Admiral Fallow, Nile Rodgers & Chic,^[14] Dreadzone, The Fratellis,^[15] Siobhan Miller, Vistas, Peat & Diesel (replacing Sam Ryder at short notice),^[16] Shed Seven, Passenger and a DJ set from Gok Wan. Highlights from the festival were broadcast on BBC Scotland^[17][18] and BBC Alba, with Fiona MacKenzie and Niall Iain MacDonald^[19] presenting. Full sets from a number of acts were also available on the BBC iPlayer.^[20]