Big Tent Hullaballoo
Recent iTunes ‘download of the week’ artist King Creosote and hugely popular music festival dynamos The Peatbog Faeries will light up the inaugural ‘Big Hullaballoo’ concerts during The Big Tent Festival, Scotland’s Festival of Stewardship which takes place in Falkland over the weekend of 26th and 27th July.
Year Three for the Big Tent and a chance for the organisers, Falkland Centre for Stewardship, to host what is rapidly becoming the premier event which allows visitors and participants to contribute, change and celebrate the work of the environmental movement and conservation of the living world. Music has always been part of the Big Tent but this year the creation of The Big Hullabaloo tent pitches the festival up into a higher league.
The confirmation of headline acts of King Creosote (a.k.a. Kenny Anderson) whose latest album has enjoyed astonishing critical acclaim together with The Peatbog Faeries, one of the most electrifying and sought after bands on the UK’s summer festival circuit underlines the Big Tent’s emergence as a credible cultural event as well as a showcase and debating forum for those involved in safeguarding the future of Planet Earth.
“Stewardship isn’t solely about the environment, it’s also about the wider culture we create and inhabit” comments Programme Director Mike Small. “Big Tent is still at its heart a stewardship festival now with a great music line up, not another music festival with a green makeover”!
“There is much to celebrate” claims Mike: “There is now growing consensus and sense of urgency about socio-ecological matters. Demand for local and organic food is growing at a rate that suppliers cannot match. Here in Scotland we have the natural resources for alternative and renewable energy. Products are coming onto the market that will help us save energy and reduce consumption and design and architecture innovations are at the forefront of helping create genuinely sustainable homes of the future”.
“In fact, at this very time the Scottish Government is leading the way, Scotland’s proposed Climate Changed Bill is acknowledged by WWF and others as ‘the most important piece of legislation in our lifetime’ and ‘could establish our nation as an international leader in tackling climate change’ with its aims of 80% reduction of greenhouse gases by 2050“.
This year’s Big Tent Festival with its theme of ‘Journeys’ both collective and personal will touch on heads, hands and hearts and will introduce many new initiatives in addition to a packed weekend of music and dance during the day from a ‘Culture Stage’ featuring international performances such as Grassroots Zimbabwe, Voces del Sur and Moishe’s Bagel.
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