Music lovers are being invited to enjoy a unique experience in unique surroundings when Pilgrimage To The Islands makes a comeback to Lindisfarne this autumn.
The three-day music event will be making a high tide return to Holy Island in Northumberland in November, with musicians and fans set to be marooned there when the tide comes in. They will be able to soak up a day of music and art - and the island's stunning natural surroundings - before the tide ebbs a few hours later in time for their journey back to the mainland, unless they've booked somewhere to stay on the island for the duration of course.
The November 8-10 festival, featuring home-grown talent alongside the likes of American new wave folk singer Amy Rigby, will take place indoors in the village hall. This all-seater Crossman Hall also will have food and drink on sale while the island’s pubs and cafés are expected to enjoy a brisk trade too.
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The entertainment will get under way at lunchtime on the Friday and has been built around the causeway's safe crossing times. Fans will be able to access the island from 9.15am that day until 5.20pm, with music will be playing while the North Sea closes the island in.
There will be safe crossing times back to the mainland from 9.30pm that day then Saturday’s low tide access to the island will be from 10am-6.20pm and Sunday's hours will be be 11.25am-7.30pm. A festival spokesman said: "For music fans wanting to get away from it all there can be no better venue than Lindisfarne at high tide."
Also on the music bill will be King Creosote, playing on the Friday; Butler; Blake and Grant headlining on Sunday and Martin Stephenson and the Daintees plus Mick Head & The Red Elastic Band on Sunday. Other acts will include Kathryn Williams and Withered Hand; The Dave Hull-Denholm Band; The Pearlfishers, Ceitidh Mac; Nev Clay; Frankie Archer and Hector Gannet who have songs named after the area such as The Whin Sill and The Haven of St Aidan’s.
Organiser Mark Elliott said. “The last time we did this event, the feedback was amazing. People totally loved getting away from the hustle and bustle of everyday life as the island instils a sense of calm." He said it had been "an atmosphere like no other" and added that this year's line-up will make for "a memorable event".
To book weekend tickets or day tickets for the festival see here. Music will finish in time for safe crossing of the causeway and organisers stress that no risks should be taken with the tides: keep a check on crossing times here.
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