So there’s no Connect this year. You’re not enthralled by the trek down to Bestival to take your chance on rivers of mud, and well Glastonbury’s just not been the same since you were sneaking under the fence as a teenager.
Well if you’ve not heard about the Garden Party at Kelburn Castle we’re here to let you into a little secret. Having played host to parties organised by the pan-continental art-clash known as The Graffiti Project since 2006, the Garden Party enthuses a unique spirit of cross-culturalism. Back in 2006, Sao Paolo’s most notorious guerrilla street artists flew to Scotland and painted the ancient Kelburn Castle at the behest of the owners.
The Garden Party aims to fill a gap in the Scottish boutique festival market by programming a weekend of music that brings together diverse strands of the local progressive music scene and joins them with hand-picked talent of an international calibre. They’ve no qualms about pitching alt.country bands alongside dubstep DJs, or cutting edge live electronica with Balkan/gypsy or folk acts, and throwing a samba school in with a reggae group.
With a bewilderingly wide spectrum of local acts to join in the fun, the Garden Party represents the exciting and open-minded young talent working in Scotland’s bedrooms, practice rooms and unheralded venues today. Aiming to unite techno heads, dub warriors, folk connoisseurs, disco divas and jazz dancers to get down under the tree-tops.
Radio Magnetic have joined forces with the Garden Party and other independent media organisations to engendered Kelburn Castle with a heart and soul that mainstream festivals can only dream of.
