SOMETIMES you have to miss your favourite music festival when your daughter is taking part in a dancing competition. But one woman, from Ballachullish, who has descended on Mull every April for the past 10 years, has virtually there despite not being present at all.
When friends of Marion Richie, who lives in Fife, found out she wouldn’t be taking part in their annual outing to the Mull Music Festival, they came up with a novel idea of bringing her along anyway – by having masks made of their friend that they wore everywhere around Tobermory.
Taking in bands such as Trail West, Tide Lines, Horo, Chunks, Crooked Reel, Gunna Sound, Heron Valley, Beinn Lee Ceilidh Band, Dun Mor Ceilidh Band, Ruairidh MacLean, Allan Irvine, Davy Holt, Crooked Reel and many more in venues throughout the village, the masks became a feature of the hundreds of people attending the four-day event.