Noel Fielding, Ryley Walker, Nathan Outlaw, Ali Smith, Bruce Robinson, Helen Dunmore, Dan Pearson, Bo Ningen, Michael Chapman, Sara Pascoe, Bill Ryder Jones, Andrew Weatherall, Isy Suttie, Eden Project, Caught By The River, Geoff Dyer, James Acaster, Nina Stibbe, David Quantick, Piers Atkinson, Sandy Powell, NCZA Lines, Meilyr Jones, Vangoffey, Imarhan, Erol Alkan, Money, Sidestepper, Barbara Hulanicki, Mark Hix, Aber Arcades, Younghusband, Matthew Fort & Murray Lachlan Young are among first names confirmed for Port Eliot festival.

The first confirmed names give a nod to the free-ranging spirit of a festival which places equal importance on music, words, food, fashion, flowers, walking and water, not to mention idling in the countryside with a cold glass. 

Port Eliot Festival runs from 28-31 July 2016 at St Germans, south east Cornwall. New features this year include a programme of workshops, demonstrations and practical skills sessions that has doubled in size, after an overwhelming amount of interest last year. Late night astronomy walks and talks, natural silk dyeing, botanical illustration classes, diorama making, Campfire cooking, survival skills, overnight campout for kids, headdress making, vintage swimming cap design, cider and cheese pairing, wild cocktail making, herbal first aid, yarn bombing, block printing, sound arts workshops, calligraphy and the Grand Port Eliot Clothes Swap will all be waiting in the Workshop Barn. Continuing the theme of doing rather than talking, Hole & Corner magazine will present its own stage in partnership with Plymouth University.

Larks Haven is a newly created corner of quiet, where people suffering from a night at the front of the Park Stage or throwing shapes in the Boogie Round can find a forgiving hot tub with their name on, or a sauna, yoga or meditation class to prepare them for another night on the tiles.

This year, Port Eliot unveils a major scientific conspiracy with fellow great Cornish institution, The Eden Project and the British Science Association. The most startlingly unusual room in the House at Port Eliot, the Round Room, will become the festivals first science lab. Experiments, lectures and debates will fill the room; an all-too-rare opportunity to chew over astronomy, bio-hacking, the science of sleep and memory or food science.

The love of food has always been at the heart of Port Eliot and the festivals Flower and Fodder Show has taken this to new levels. Lucy Hyslop, Port Eliot Co-Director and Flower and Fodder curator, explains, at This year we are excited to have Nathan Outlaw, as well as a plethora of fresh and established authors bringing the very latest flavours and cooking creativity for every age and every palate. Its early days, but for this summer, ww are set for a star turn by Egg scribe Blanche Vaughan, Spuntino and Polpo restaurant guru Russell Norman and a chat with Sally Clarke, among many. The motto is simple: Come hungry, leave sated. Are you ready to tuck in?

Tickets 

Child and family tickets all available. Children 7 and under free.

Day tickets: £60 for adults