LOCHGILPHEAD’S biggest music festival, held on the first weekend in September, has had to be cancelled at the 11th hour after the owners of the venue significantly increased the rent and a change to regulations made the festival ‘unworkable’.
Kayla Leitch, aged 5, enjoying an ice-cream after getting her face painted at the Pictish festival last Saturday. aapict9
Organisers of MAMA Fest, now in its third year, say the new owners of the Argyll Hotel had stepped in to allow a smaller event to go ahead, but bands had already been cancelled.