BUCCLEUCH AND QUEENSBERRY ARMS HOTEL

"Thornhill lies at the junction of the A76 Dumfries to Kilmarnock and A702 New Galloway to Edinburgh roads in the mid-section of the beautiful Nith Valley in Dumfriesshire. The village is an attractive and vibrant community of some 2,000 people, and Dumfries and Galloway is a well-known music destination, hosting such successful events as the Wickerman, Moniaive Folk and Bluegrass Festivals. As a band with over 200 gigs behind us, we are in the lucky position of knowing a few musicians across many genres, and after lengthy chats with the Thornhill Inn, one of our most popular venues, along with 3 other local inns hotels, we decided to put on something similar to the established and successful Blues Festivals such as Shetland, Arbroath, Callander and in particular Montrose (we've played at all of them several times), where the bands are paid directly by the venues, but differing in that we wanted to broaden the musical scope. " Feel free to use any of the above prose in any grant application press release mate. It would be good if we could have a wee chat about the last festival - I need to know what actually went tits up !!