Highland Festivals 2023

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We look at the dates and details of the biggest and best music festivals in the Highlands for 2023.

MacMoray Easter Festival

The Venga Boys at MacMoray Festival April 2022 image no DSC 9626 - Highland Festivals 2023

The second year of MacMoray Easter Festival will be held on the 29th & 30th April, 2023 at Cooper Park, Elgin. Last

MacMoray Easter Festival tickets can be bought here

The Gathering

Torridon at The Gathering 2019 6918 - Highland Festivals 2023

The Gathering will happen at The Northern Meeting Park on the 27th of May, 2022.

The line up currently includes Tide Lines, Red Hot Chilli Pipers, Torridon, Talisk, Hò-rò, Beinn Lee, Hannah Rarity, RANT, City of Inverness Youth Pipe Band with more to be announced in due course.

Want to revisit previous years? Check out our coverage of The Gathering.

The Gathering tickets can be bought here

XpoNorth 2023

Annie Booth at XpoNorth 2018 9 - Highland Festivals 2023

XpoNorth 2020 moved to digital platforms due to COVID-19, since that point there has not been any word of the return of a non virtual showcase / festival. So there is currently a significant question mark as to wether the festival as we know it will return

Want to revisit previous years? Check out our coverage of XpoNorth.

Woodzstock 2023

Goldie Lookin Chain at Woodzstock 2022 40 - Highland Festivals 2023

Woodzstock 2023 will be held on June the 13th the current line up includes headliners Tom McGuire & The Brassholes and McFleetwood, joined by PaleMoon, The Black Isle Peas, CHANCERS, Karawane, Rhoehaisse Clark, Wee James and Bad Actress

Our coverage of Woodzstock can be found here

Woodzstock Tickets can be bought here

Belladrum 2023

Folk at the fest at Belladrum 2018 1b - Highland Festivals 2023

Belladrum 2023 has been announced for 27-29 July 2023. Sigrid and Travis announced as Thursday and Saturday night headliners respectively, the line up will be increased over the forthcoming months.

Our coverage including recent line-up announcement of Belladrum can be found here

Belladrum Tickets are available here

Jocktoberfest 2023

Jocktoberfest 2018 with King Kobalt 8 - Highland Festivals 2023

With no formal announcement of it’s retirement, there have been no social media posts since 2020, Jocktoberfest 2023 is looking very very unlikely.

Relive the glory years of Jocktoberfest here.

Monsterfest 2023

The Tigers of Pan Tang at Monstersfest 2018 Ironworks Inverness November 2018 27 530x424 - Highland Festivals 2023

No confirmation of Monsterfest 2023 at time of writing, but we anticipate it will return in it’s Halloween slot for 23.

Our coverage of the first few festivals can be found here.

Have we missed an event? Contact us through Facebook and we will sort that out.

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Chris Lemon
Chris Lemon
A lifelong passion for music matched with a geeky fascination for social media and websites resulted in the creation of Inverness Gigs back in 2010. The aim of the site is to help promote, support and generally raise awareness of the local music scene.If you want get in touch you can contact me direct at invernessgigs@gmail.com

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