This family-friendly roots festival might just be one of Scotland’s best-kept secrets. Celebrating music from the Celtic diaspora, as well as reggae, ska, jazz, drum and bass, and other kinds of so-called ‘world music’, it also hosts cabaret, spoken word, comedy and dance. In other words: it’s going to be hard to get bored.
Big names: Queen Omega & The Royal Souls, 808 State, Ríoghnach Connolly & Honeyfeet, Mungo’s Hi Fi.
Required apparel: Baggy trousers and lots of layers.
Don’t say: ‘How do you pronounce “Knockengorroch?”’
Dumfries & Galloway, Scotland. May 23-26.