If you go down to the woods....again

In April 2009 the owners of Inshriach House, Ord Ban Restaurant, The Old Bridge Inn and Backwoods Productions decided to have a party. They had a venue, a bunch of friends and just 6 weeks to convince the cream of Scottish folk and contemporary artists they were serious. They sprinkled in the finest local food, washed it down with tasty ales and called it The Insider.

The Insider returns in 2010, kicking off on the 17^th June with a Festival of Firewood - a free public day organised in conjunction with the Cairngorms National Park promoting renewable resources and woodcraft - then continues from the 18^th to the 20^th with the festival proper.

We feel it is our duty to once again dish up the most talented of home grown musicians and serve them alongside the finest food in the valley, with whisky galore, welly-wanging, spit-roasts and bonfires, pimms on the lawn, cake-fights, lasers in the woods, ping-pong and sing songs the whole night long.

But we won’t stop there... we are also throwing in river adventures, workshops, storytelling; a whole new stage, a slew of incredible new bands, yurts-galore and a heavy dash of Insider magic…

Set in the gardens and grounds of the Inshriach estate, with a backdrop to the Cairngorm Mountains the Insider promises to be a truely bohemian highland garden party adventure

The sun will shine again, folk will swim in the Spey (quite against the instructions of our health and safety division!) and bonfires and impromptu woodland piano jams will light up the night.

Line-up so far, in no particular order –

Sparrow and the Workshop

Jo Mango

Admiral Fallow

Charlie McKerron & Friends

Bob Hillary and the Massive Mellow

Mary Hampton

Mike and Solveig

Mike and Georgia Heron

The Injuns

Claes Cem

Mr&Mrs Smith

Rachel Sermanni

King Arthurs Men

Washington Irving

DolphinBoy

Donna Maciocia

Mike Nisbet

The Banana Sessions

Blue Rose Code

Horndog Brass Band

Joe Acheson Quartet

Three Blind Wolves

The Woodland Orchestra

Matt Bennett (Kinky Afro)

Dj Astroboy

Trembling Bells

Mammals

Woodenbox with a Fistful of Fivers

The French Wives

John Langan Band

Feis Spe

Jack Sandison and The Holy Ghosts

The Stagger Rats

Over The Wall

Steven Milne

Infrasound

Early Grey and the Loose Leaves

Alasdair Roberts

The Boy Who Trapped The Sun

Kill It Kid

The Bonfire Band

Chris Bradley

The Breaks

The Hundred Metre Club

Robin Lewis Adams

ProVinylistKarim

The Little Kicks

Brawth

StreetThunder

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“anarchic, beautiful, otherworldly and above all, really great craic. Leave your woes behind and hit the Insider – you won’t regret it!” Aidan O’Rourke (Lau)

“could the Insider be the best Scottish music festival this summer?” STV

“it’s really refreshing to see this truly independent festival coming back for a second year... if last years line-up is anything to go by then we are in for a treat” Peenko

www.insider2010.com