A Real Taste of Cornwall Gavin Roberts Is MD of the Kernow Sausage Company Who’Ve Had a Stall Serving Delicious Sausages at Our Festival Every Year Since It Began
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Festival Paper THE PERFECT CORNISH HOLIDAY DESTINATION SEA & HARBOUR VIEWS or visit www.porthlevenholidaycottages.co.ukCall to book +44 (0)1326 574270 DO YOU OWN A HOLIDAY COTTAGE? We are always looking to expand our portfolio of prope rties so why not give us a call to see what we can do for you. Welcome to QER the 2015 “Porthleven Food and Music Festival brings out the best in local Porthleven food and talent. This will be my 6th year and I’m looking forward to Food and food, fun and fabulous people, I can’t wait!” Music Antony Worral Thompson – our Festival Festival patron Our theme this year is Feast and Fiesta, celebrating Cornwall's fabulous food and vibrant music in a colourful and packed weekend of fun. Feast Munch on muffins, chow down on chow mein or scoff some sausages with over 90 fabulous stalls selling Cornish produce with influences from around the globe. And don’t miss our two food stages – the Chefs’ Theatre on the Harbour Head, where celebrity chefs including Rick Stein and our patron Antony Worral Thompson will be cooking up a storm. Plus, new for this year, Amelies Seafood Stage on Breageside where you can get up close with some of our top local chefs. Fiesta Experience maximum rockgrass with Hayseed Dixie at our Friday fundraiser, or marvel at our firework finale on Sunday evening. From start to finish there’s lots of reasons to join the party. From classic and country to rock and reggae our four music stages feature the very best local and international acts (see p. 10-11 for more info), including the brand new BBC Introducing Day at the Lime Kiln Stage. Little ones can join the fun in our Jollyboat area where a pirate theme, bouncy castle and lots of activities will provide hours of entertainment (see p.15). Read all about it You’ll find more detail about all of this and more, including the Half Cut Film Festival and interviews with some of the people behind the festival, in this Festival paper. Enjoy the read and make sure you’re in Porthleven on April 24th - 26th. We’re a not-for-profit festival run by a team of volunteers. This year all profits from the festival will be given to the Porthleven Skate Park appeal. We’ll see you there! 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Lunch from noon. See you there! Harbourside, Porthleven, Cornwall TR13 9JS Telephone 01326 554000 www.ameliesporthleven.co.uk Friday Friday night’s legendary fundraising party on the Harbour Head is always a sell out. So this year we’ve created more room in the tent for what’s sure to be a rockin’, foot-stomping night to remember. or 2015 we’ve gone bigger and better and teamed up with the organisers of local festival The Masked Ball to bring some fabulous bands to the party. Starters come in the shape of Flocal legends and Festival favourites Flats & Sharps. Expect toe-tappin’, feel good tunes as this Penzance five-piece bring their bluegrass double bass, mandolin, banjo, guitar and gorgeous harmonies to the party. Then it’s onto the main course as Appalachian hillbilly rockers Hayseed Dixie bring their very special flavour of bluegrass from the USA to good ol’ Porthleven. Hayseed Dixie have played more than 1,000 live shows and sold more than half a million albums worldwide. They’ve also played Glastonbury and many other major festivals. The boys are famous for their unique rockgrass covers of tracks from AC/DC’s Ace of Spades to Queen’s Bohemian Rhapsody. There’ll be a licensed bar at the event as well as food on sale from the brilliant Savour & Relish and Artisan Crepes Tickets: £14 (+ booking fee online). Buy them online via the Festival website at porthlevenfoodfestival.com or pick them up in person at Nauti But Ice or Stargazey in Porthleven. 7pm start. Strings and Pimms QER For a more sedate pace, don’t miss this classical concert at St Bartholomew’s Church “We’re delighted to be able to from 6.30pm. bring a high calibre act like Led by violinist Sue Watson, the Classical Hayseed Dixie to Porthleven Food Strings Quartet perform a truly romantic and Music Festival. We’ve put the programme of music including Mozart, Brahms, Masked Ball team at the heart of Franck and a selection of Cornish and Celtic the production, so we can expect Kelvin Batt, Melodies some exciting shows.” Tickets: £7.50 including an interval glass of Festival Sponsor Pimms. Get yours from the Porthleven Holiday Cottages office on the Harbour Head or contact Rosie Hughes on 01326 574270 or rosie.hughes@topgroup.co.uk 5 Dishes inspired by Rick’s travels. www.rickstein.com 01326 56 56 36 @SteinPorthleven /RickSteinPorthleven Mount Pleasant Road | Porthleven | TR13 9JS 15:17 BREWING, FILTERING & SUPPLYING SPECIALITY COFFEE Harbour Head, Porthleven, Cornwall Having QER “To be asked to do the Food Festival is a massive honour for us.” a ball Kelvin Batt, Festival Sponsor This year the team behind Porthleven’s Masked Ball will be running the bars, décor and production at the Food & Music Festival. As well as a wealth of event experience, Kelvin Batt and Alec Short bring a fresh injection of enthusiasm and ideas — and a black book full of contacts from the music world and beyond. We spoke to local lad Kelvin about what new delights they’ll be contributing to this year’s Festival. First of all, tell us about the Masked Ball. We’re now in our eighth year and in that time we’ve grown from an event for 400 to one for 4000. It takes place on the cliffs near Beacon Crag just outside Porthleven on the first weekend in May and it’s always a sell out. If I was to say 15 years ago to people we’d have Groove Armada playing on the cliffs they’d have looked at me like I was crazy but now we’ve done that. It’s one of a kind really because we’ve no big sponsors or companies up there, it happens because of the hard graft of a group of local people, much like the Food Festival. What a great two weeks for Porthleven! What will the Masked Ball team bring to the Food & Music Festival? To be asked to do the Food Festival is a massive honour for us. We hope we can add to what’s already a great Festival and help take it to the next level. If you look at the line-up there’s already great bands and the food side has a real superstar line-up, we want to bring our contacts in and to bring in some top international acts to complement the brilliant local talent. Hayseed Dixie, who we’ve booked for Friday night, have played sold out shows across the UK and US so it’s a massive coup for us to have them here in Porthleven. Being able to book that kind of act depends on the contacts we have from doing the Masked Ball. What else can we expect to see that’s different at this year’s Food & Music Festival? We’ve got some big ideas we’re hoping to bring to fruition. The first is we’d like to incorporate the Lime Kiln itself into the stage over there, whether that’s using the bottom section as a bar or using it as a better backdrop or even putting the bands on top of it. We’ve got Helston School involved making a huge mermaid that we’ll float on a pontoon out in the harbour and we’ll be bringing in lots of décor, from flags to bunting to fit with the 2015 Feast and Fiesta theme. The kids’ area, Jollyboat, will have a pirate theme and that’ll include a dome with a tunnel to get inside where you’ll find a giant mirrorball skull as well as a few surprises! We’re also looking at bridging the gap across the harbour to help the flow and stop the bottleneck you can get over on Breageside. It’ll make it easier to walk around and we’ll have a troll taking tolls to cross with some of the money going towards the fishermen’s charity — so everyone will benefit.