Set across 9 stages, Eden hosts an eclectic mix of sounds and environments, from auld celtic drinkin’ dens to psychedelic tropical dance tents to circus styled brass and ska cocktail bars to Indian wedding marquees filled with hammocks, bath tubs and chai cafes. Bimble on intrepid adventure seeker…. a whole Garden of treats awaits beyond the elm gates of Eden…

Involvement of the community and young people in Dumfries & Galloway has been the heartbeat of the Eden Festival. Originally founded by youth from the community, Eden has been created, organised, supported, built, performed and marketed by young people from the area. This has gone hand in hand with support from older generations within the area to give a very positive and vital collective community spirit to the festival – mixing optimism and energy with experience and guidance.

Eden was brought about as an area of the Wickerman Festival in 2002. The Chairman of the Youth Strategy Group (A council run music group with 3 members, all under 17, which was responsible for organising the first Wickerman Festival) was also responsible for starting Eden in the same year as a side project to the main event. It was an area of the festival comprising of dance and chill out tents with a large garden area in the middle. The Chairman of the Youth Strategy Group (YSG) involved friends in organising the area and friends parents roped in friends with skills to help build the creative highly decorated spaces.