Description: The Lomond Folk Festival was held annually during the month of July at Balloch on the shores of Loch Lomond. The Lomond Folk Festival was considered as the Scotland's friendliest family festival! Content is from the site's 2002 -2013 archived pages.
The Lomond Folk Festival was held annually during the month of July at Balloch on the shores of Loch Lomond. Spread over three days in late July in the village of Balloch, situated at the southern edge of Loch Lomond, the Lomond Folk Festival was considered by many as the Scotland's friendliest family festival! It took a hiatus for four years 2017 was its 14th year. Content is from the site's 2002 -2013 archived pages.
Myself (Peter Parlane) and Andy Gaffney had a discussion around 12 years ago and decided, why not organise a Folk Festival. We had been going to Folk Festivals for a number of years, Stonehaven, Killin, Girvan amongst others, and thought why not Balloch! We could do that!! The active Lomond Folk Club was a good source of volunteers, though there were reservations, where would the funds come from, would we be taking money from the Folk Club? The first Festival meeting was held in 1998 and the first thing
We had The Clachies, The Marysia Lesnau Band, Ptarmigan, Old Blind Dogs and The McCalmans.