Solfest is the definitive festival for music hungry families. Welcoming, inclusive, inventive and jam-packed with carefully selected chart-topping acts from across the decades; it’s one of North England’s best kept and beautiful festival secrets with a stunning family area, workshops and five stages packed with music.
Its unique setting allows you to park right next to your tent for the most effortless camping experience, while wood for campfires is provided free of charge for that authentic outdoors experience.
The particularly family-friendly event, held between 24th – 26th August and located on the edge of the Lake District, is one of the more wonderful British music festivals, tucked between the Solway coast and the Cumbrian fells. It offers a very open-minded and all-welcoming atmosphere for fans of music and the great outdoors, with a quality music programme incorporating classic guitar noise, pleasing new beats and eclectically satisfying melodies.
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Solfest 2012

Lineup
day TBC
60 acts- The Waterboys Main Stage
- Adam Ant and The Good, The Mad and The Lovely Posse Main Stage
- Big Country Main Stage
- Billy Bragg Main Stage
- Bootleg Beatles Main Stage
- Emily Barker & The Red Clay Halo Main Stage
- Fiona Clayton Main Stage
- Kitchie Wud Main Stage
- KT Tunstall Main Stage
- Larkin Poe Main Stage
- Louis Barabbas & The Bedlam Six Main Stage
- Nina Nesbitt Main Stage
- Popgun Main Stage
- Saint Jude Main Stage
- Strangefruit Main Stage
- Tarras Main Stage
- The 309s Main Stage
- The Duke Spirit Main Stage
- South Main Stage
- Transglobal Underground Main Stage
- Yes Sir Boss Main Stage
- Eat Static Dance Tent
- System 7 Dance Tent
- Aberfeldy Drystone Stage
- Belleruche Drystone Stage
- Bellevue Rendezvous Drystone Stage
- Bridie Jackson and the Arbour Drystone Stage
- Dub Jazz Sound System Drystone Stage
- Juba Do Leao Drystone Stage
- Man's Ruin Drystone Stage
- Matt Stalker and Fables Drystone Stage
- Rob Heron and the Tea Pad Orchestra Drystone Stage
- Roddy Woomble Drystone Stage
- Solway Sunset Drystone Stage
- The Baghdaddies Drystone Stage
- The Hut People Drystone Stage
- This Is the Kit Drystone Stage
- Walsh & Pound Drystone Stage
- BAD TRANSMISSION House Of Joy
- Bushrocker Hi Fi House Of Joy
- Jinx In Dub House Of Joy
- Nucleus Roots House Of Joy
- Brewed Slowly Bar Stage
- Davey Horne Bar Stage
- Eden\'s Daughter Bar Stage
- Emma Dockeray Bar Stage
- Ford & The Shouts Bar Stage
- Heidi Browne Bar Stage
- House Of Three Hands Bar Stage
- In Dynamics Bar Stage
- Jakarta Club Bar Stage
- More From Jim Bar Stage
- Pikey Beatz Bar Stage
- Riff-X Bar Stage
- Surfin' Turnips Bar Stage
- The Boobytraps Bar Stage
- The Manhattan Project Bar Stage
- The Talks Bar Stage
- The Backyard Rhythm Orchestra unknown stage
- Timo Maas unknown stage
Location & Map
Tarnside Farm, Cumberland
Tarns, Nr Silloth, Cumbria, Cumberland, CA74NQ
Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors
Videos
Solfest 2012 — Official Video
Solfest 2012 — Highlights
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