A FESTIVAL has seen performers and audiences from across the south of Scotland gather for two days of music at the Sun Amphitheatre at Crawick Multiverse near Sanquhar.
Many of the performers at the Music at the Multiverse festival were from, or had strong links to, the Dumfries and Galloway or Ayrshire areas.
The event was part of the Sanquhar Arts Festival, and helped to explore Crawick’s potential as an outdoor venue in easy reach of central and southern Scotland and Cumbria.
Gill Khosla, Crawick Multiverse Trust (CMT) chair, said: “It’s been brilliant – a real success.
“For many of the performers it was their first gig of this kind since the start of the pandemic.
“And for audiences it was a chance to get out, meet family and friends, and revel in some excellent entertainment.
“It was wonderful for everyone to be able to gather in a superb, safe, outdoor setting like this.
“It was perfect for two days of amazing music including rock, folk, trad, harp and opera.”
Khosla continued: “This was very much a pilot event, but the feedback has been excellent and I thinks it’s really shown the potential for Crawick Multiverse to become a major outdoor venue, giving people the opportunity to enjoy performing arts and activities of all kinds in an astonishingly beautiful setting.”
The festival’s venue is a 55-acre visitor attraction and land art instillation, created by Charles Jencks and inspired by his ideas about astronomy.
Saturday’s musical line-up included acts such as ONR (with Robert Shields), Lucky Doves, Pedro and the Pirates, Archie Irving and Fathers Medicine.
Meanwhile, Smith & McClennan, Claudia Wood, Flew the Arrow and Wendy Stewart performed on Sunday.
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