Rebecca Hay Tub thumping music and swirling kilts drenched in a backdrop of beauty makes for an entrancing Celtic festival. With a huge dollop of friendly happy smiles and everyone’s a winner at four-day Knockengorroch – Scotland’s first greenfield site celebration. Now in it’s 26th year, it still holds true the values it was born with, when the idea for the event on a sheep farm in a sleepy part of Dumfries and Galloway, was first thought of by Londoners Liz and Simon Holmes.
Liz and Simon had bought Knockengorroch from the forestry and used their 25 acres as a small holding and to grow potatoes, before in 1998, they hosted their first festival featuring traditional music on a stage made from straw bales and pallets, with a roof of bent trees and tarpaulin. Simple but impressive and drawing a crowd of 300, Liz and Simon did not rest of their laurels and today they have musicians from all over the world and a cap of 3,000 revellers for the May event, which is organised with the help of their children Robert and Katch. Wonderfully, it’s a mixture of young, old, individuals, couples and families, who all rub along nicely together and set up home in beautiful countryside.
From tents to caravans to camper vans, it’s a heady mix and with husband Kenny and children Ruaridh and Flossie in tow, we opted for a family motorhome. (Image: unknown) Europe’s leading operator CamperDays works with 150 countries worldwide to hook people up with camper accommodation where its ne.