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goNORTH SEEDLINGS STAGE ANNOUNCEMENT & THE OPEN DAY ROTATION ADDED TO BELLADRUM LINE-UP

We are pleased to announce the acts selected for the goNORTH Seedlings Stage at Belladrum Tartan Heart Festival 2012. Taking place across the 3rd and 4th of August, we are delighted to have programmed over half the line up from our 2012 live showcase list.

“We are excited to be continuing our long standing relationship with Belladrum Tartan Heart Festival in 2012”, said goNORTH Director for Music Shaun Arnold.“Belladrum has developed into one of the key festivals on the Scottish calendar, and has become firmly established as an important platform for connecting new artists with a broad and passionate audience”.

"We’re really delighted with the strength of the unsigned line-up at bella this year", added Festival Booker Joe Gibbs. "Most of these artists are to be found in the goNORTH Seedlings Stage which has become a mecca for people seeking the next wave of music talent coming from the Highlands and wider Scotland."

goNORTH Seedlings Stage 2012

Anderson, McGinty, Webster, Ward and Fisher

Brown Bear & The Bandits
Chasing Owls

Chris Devotion & The Expectations

City In Surveillance
Donald Macdonald & The Islands
FInding Albert

Graham Brown
Last Summer Effect

Megan Blyth

Miss Irenie Rose

Olympic Swimmers

Oskar Empire
Rae Morris

ROADWAY
Stanley Odd

Team Kapowski

The Machine Room
The Maginot Band

This Silent Forest
Toby Michaels Rolling Damned

Following his BBC 2 documentary 'An Estate Car and a PA' we are delighted to confirm that Willie Campbell's band The Open Day Rotation have been added to the line-up on the Saturday of Belladrum. Former frontman of Astrid and member of The Reindeer Section, Willie Campbell unveilled his incredible new album 'toxic good, toxic bad' earlier this month.

Belladrum has sold out each of the past three years.. Advance adult weekend tickets are £95 and Saturday tickets are £65. They include parking and camping, campervans and caravans tickets are now sold out. As in previous years, tickets for children 12 & under are free.

Belladrum 2012 takes place in the beautiful Highland surroundings of Belladrum Estate, near Beauly in Inverness-shire. The independent festival has built a reputation for its eclectic line-ups, its off beat non-musical entertainments and its all-ages approach. The festival won a VisitScotland Thistle Award in 2009 and is a past winner of the Grassroots Festival Award at the UK Festival Awards, the festival industry’s ‘oscars’.