early bird tickets on sale for Port Eliot Festival 2014

Early bird tickets are now on sale for next year's Port Eliot Festival held between Thursday 24th and Sunday 27th July 2014 in the grounds of the Earl of St Germans Cornish estate at Port Eliot in Cornwall.

Set in the very same location as the legendary Elephant Fayre, back in the Seventies and Eighties, the festival started up as the Eliot Lit Fest early in the millennium and offers a rich diversity of arts and entertainment encompassing music, literature, poetry, comedy, film and art. There are no acts announced yet for 2014.

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The super early bird offer sold out after a few hours. Early bird weekend tickets are priced at £155 for adults, £70 for children (aged 8-15 years inclusive), tickets for children and under 8 years old are free. A Friday day ticket for adults is priced at £40, a Saturday ticket is priced at £60, and Sunday is priced at £50. Child tickets are priced at £25, £35, and £30 respectively. Campervan tickets are priced at £50 per pitch. Booking fees must be added.

Festival founder, Catherine St Germans, said “Port Eliot 2014 promises many more surprises as we invite artists to come and do something special. Plenty of the performances will be complete one-offs and, for many, the beauty of the festival will be the chance to experience, at close range, our line-up of authors, bands, chefs, designers and performers.”

“The festival capacity is kept purposely low - 7,000 people at maximum – and while the festival’s themes, stages, tents and installations may grow, the number of people on site will not, ensuring an inspirational weekend, by turns riotous and tranquil.”

Port Eliot is a combination of books, music, fashion, film, food, wildlife, water and conversations set around the ancient and beautiful stately home and mediaeval
monastery at St Germans in south-east Cornwall sit in more than 100 acres of woodland gardens and park. Throughout the festival, visitors will also be able to roam the gardens and park - created by landscape gardener Humphrey Repton - which stretches down to a secret estuary of the river Lynher, above which stands Brunel’s
railway viaduct. The festival is always looking for new things to do; two stages are run by blogs - dovegreyreader and Caught by the River – and two more by The Idler and digital literary magazine Five Dials.