Solfest - 28-30 August
2009
Solfest is a festival designed to support the local community as
well as festival enthusiasts from further afield, and is intended
to be enjoyed as an experience in its own right. We want all our
artists/performers to receive the same amount of support, whether
they are a big name international act or a smaller local performer.

We believe that there are too many festivals where tickets are
sold for individual gigs/sessions and this encourages visitors to
“cherry-pick” the big name acts without supporting the
festival as a whole, often leaving insufficient tickets left for
people who want to stay for the duration of the festival.
We also believe that the amazing atmosphere found at really good
festivals usually has very little to do with the music. It is a
product of the shared experience of thousands of people, from very
different walks of life, forming a community, and living together
in a single place for a weekend which generates something very special.
Organisers do not create festivals; they are created by the people
who support them.

All this obviously has implications for us as well – if,
for example, we can only get a licence to sell say 5000 tickets,
we want them to go to people who will support the whole festival.
For these reasons, we are not releasing a detailed list of exactly
when each act will perform or selling tickets for individual sessions.

We believe that by having a great line-up and by making our tickets
some of the cheapest available for any festival this summer, we
can ensure that people will want to stay for the whole weekend and
by doing so, contribute to making Solfest a fantastic experience
for everyone!
Solfest will be held at:
Tarnside Farm, Tarns, Silloth on Solway, Cumbria CA74NQ
Solfest
PO Box 87
Maryport
Cumbria
Telephone 01900 817200
eMail enquiries@solwayfestival.co.uk
Website www.solwayfestival.co.uk
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