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"The Big Tent is what all music festivals should be. Friendly and on a human scale. A good range of performers and a superb location."

Friends of the Earth Scotland

The Big Tent Festival

"This is a wonderfully warm community-based festival with great music and fantastic speakers - a tonic for the times in which we live."

Alastair McIntosh

The Big Tent Festival

"'Family-friendly' has become a popular marketing tag in today's increasingly crowded festival market, but few events follow through on the promise so scrupulously."

Sue Wilson, the Scotsman

The Big Tent Festival

"Devoted to music, art and all things green, it's a veritable feast for the folky heart."

The Guardian

The Big Tent Festival

"The Big Tent is a little festival that punches well above its weight... I love it."

Davie Philip, Cultivate Centre, Dublin, Ireland.

The Big Tent Festival

"The Big Tent is like the world as it could be in microcosm - great music, great food, thoughtful and family-friendly"

Gordon Maclean (Director, An Tobar, The Tobermory Arts Centre)

The Big Tent Festival

"The Big Tent is fast becoming a 'must go' for Scotland's environmental movement... there really is something for everyone."

Friends of the Earth Scotland

The Big Tent Festival

"We had a great gig at Big Tent - thanks to Phil Kay for the best introduction we've ever had!"

Sorren Maclean

The Big Tent Festival

"Fabulous fun for families. Full of life in Fife. We're there for the river 'n the music!"

The Chipolatas

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BIG TENT IS KINDLY SPONSORED BY:

  • Artists' Project Earth
  • Carnegie UK Trust
  • The Eurpoean Agricultual Fund for Rural Development
  • Fife Council
  • Forestry Commission Scotland
  • Forth One
  • Natural Scotland
  • Pagan Osborne
  • Scottish Arts Council
  • Scottish Natural Heritage
  • Stagecoach
  • Scottish Environment Protection Agency
  • SEPA
  • SEStran
  • Tay FM
  • Tullis Russell
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MUSIC LINE-UP

Creole Choir of Cuba, Shooglenifty, Attic Lights, the Chipolatas, Mr McFalls Chamber, Treacherous Orchestra, the Nuala Kennedy Band, the Bevvy Sisters, Joe Acheson Quartet, Michael Marra, Prince Edward Island and India Alba....more

THE BIG BLOG

Lapidus

The Poetry Tent this year is hosted again by Lapidus Scotland, a creative community of writers who use the literary arts for healing. Their theme this year is Freedom & Belonging: "These two values can make one person feel divided and even tear ...

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Get on Your Bike

Fancy leaving the car at home this year? Sustrans and Big Tent 2009 are giving twenty fantastic Sustrans t-shirts away to the festival goers who have travelled the furthest sustainably to the Big Tent 2009!! So, if you travel to the festival by ...

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