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Highland music event hopes to showcase local bands


By Val Sweeney

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Ceilidh band Tweed are set to appear at the two-day event planned by the Beauly Holiday Park.
Ceilidh band Tweed are set to appear at the two-day event planned by the Beauly Holiday Park.

A mini music festival featuring local bands is being planned to take place in Beauly this spring.

Beauly Buzz will be staged on May 7 and 8, subject to coronavirus restrictions being lifted.

It will be held at the Beauly Holiday Park, near the Lovat Bridge just outside the village, and will be restricted to 200 ticket holders.

The two-day event will feature Tweed, who combine traditional ceilidh music with other genres, function band Dark Horse, and rock cover band Fat King George.

Also set to appear are Rant whose covers include the Killers, Primal Scream, the Beatles, Blondie, KT Tunstall, Kings of Leon, plus popular local band S#arp Exit.

Between them, the five bands perform a range of music from traditional ceilidh numbers to cover versions of Metallica.

The event is also set to include a pop-up bar and local food retailers.

Holiday park owner Alan Hogan hopes the continued rollout of the Covid-19 vaccine combined with a drop in infection rates will enable the festival to go ahead.

"I think we are starting to see some light at the end of the tunnel," he said.

"We want to reopen with a bang.

"We are keeping our fingers crossed.

"We have some contingency plans in place but we are hoping we don’t have to use them."

He said if the event was unable to take place in May, it would be moved to a later date, probably September.

The two-day festival will be open only to those guests camping or staying at the holiday park.

"We are trying to have it as a showcase for local bands," Mr Hogan said.

"I have wanted to do something like this ever since taking over the park in 2016."

He said that last year the tourist season had been "very challenging".

Although the site had been closed early on due to the lockdown restrictions, he then experienced his busiest three months when it was allowed to reopen.

"People had been in lockdown for four months and were desperate to get out," he said.


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