News 2009

Limited edition Port Eliot Festival 2009 t-shirts, featuring Ralph Steadman’s beautiful script, are now for sale. Only 100 ladies’ and 100 gentlemen’s available - all hand numbered.

A huge thank you to everyone who came to this year’s festival and helped make it the most magical, memorable Port Eliot Festival yet. Head to our gallery section to peruse a colourful selection of 2009 photos that really sum up Port Eliot’s unique charm.

Rose Prince is a food columnist on the Daily Telegraph, writes reguarly for the Saturday Telegraph Magazine, and contributes to The Independent on Sunday, the Daily Mail and the Tablet. She’s the author of two acclaimed food books, The New English Kitchen and The New English Table. She’ll be doing special cookery demonstrations in the Big Kitchen at this year’s festival.

If you’re looking for a lift to St Germans, or have a space in your car could fill to help be green and save petrol money, then please post a message on our Official Facebook Page.

The deadline for buying advance tickets online is midnight tonight (Tuesday 21 July), so delay no more! There will be a limited number of tickets available on the gate, but make sure you arrive early to avoid disappointment.

Bookings are now open for Denise Christian’s Ashtanga Vinyasa yoga sessions on Saturday morning.

We spoke to Barbara from her home in Miami about the plans she, Luella Bartley and Stephen Jones are hatching for the bespoke Saturday night outfits they’ll be creating in the Biba-Ba-Luba tent. Imagine skirts made from the metallic silver fabric used by astronauts…

Chris Watson is one of the world’s leading recorders of wildlife and natural phenomena. We asked him to shed some light on the NATURE DISCO he’ll be playing at the Caught By The River area on Sunday morning.

Craig Taylor, whose One Million Tiny Plays About Britain in the Guardian Weekend magazine have gained a cult following, is hatching some great plans for Port Eliot this year. He’ll be putting on One Million Tiny Plays About Port Eliot, in a big group performance acted by the likes of Arthur Smith, Hari Kunzru, Joe Dunthorne, Henry Hemming – and, maybe, you!

If you’ve been putting off buying your day ticket to the festival until you know who’s playing when, then delay no more! We can now announce the daily line-ups