Knoydart's 10 Music Festival (part I) - Getting there

In 1999, 17000 acres of one of Scotland's remotest west coast estates was finally delivered from a sequence of mean and mainly absent landlords into the hands of the people who live there.

Inverie, Knoydart's main settlement, is a string of white-washed dwellings clinging to the peninsular's southern coastline, backed by hillsides of regenerating woodland and rising steeply to stark granite ridges.

This far flung strand of Scotland's Atlantic seaboard was the April setting for a weekend music festival to celebrate the Knoydart Foundation's first ten years of existence.

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Entertainment

Tags:

• Knoydart peninsula
• Knoydart Foundation
• West Highland Line
• Knoydart10
• Daimh
• Shooglenifty
• Bombskare
• quashy Bag Dance Band
• Lori Watson
• The Old Forge Inn

[getagripyoutwat]

" finally delivered from a sequence of mean and mainly absent landlords into the hands of the people who live there."

One of them was my father so I kind of take issue with that statement.

[jonmarkpullman]

@getagripyoutwat you are absolutely right. My syntax is at fault there. for "mean and mainly absent" read "mainly mean and absent"......hope that clears it up.

[royco50]

@jonmarkpullman Wholheatedly agree with the comments of getagripyoutwat when in the 1970's and early 1980's when the estate was owned by a wonderful family who injected large capital sums into Knoydart and ran the estate in a "genlemanly" fashion with style.

[getagripyoutwat]

@jonmarkpullman I also have to say, most people will agree that the main owner of the estate was a pretty good bloke, most of us who lived there while he owned it loved having him as a landlord and he brought a hell of a lot of money to the place and good work prospects for the locals, a stalking party pays a hell of a lot more than a group of hikers and tents, sorry but its true. Ask those who have lived there for generations who they would rather have as landlords...

[getagripyoutwat]

I also have to say, most people will agree that the main owner of the estate was a pretty good bloke, most of us who lived there while he owned it loved having him as a landlord and he brought a hell of a lot of money to the place and good work prospects for the locals, a stalking party pays a hell of a lot more than a group of hikers and tents, sorry but its true. Ask those who have lived there for generations who they would rather have as landlords...

[hilhorst234]

Brilliant place, beautiful people!

Great video, looking forward to the next!

[Gramsci77]

Nice intro - fantastic weather for a party in Knoydart! I await part 2!