As many of you will know, we will be having not one but TWO stages for The Heartland Festival 2025. Like 2024, our goal is to continue showcasing the top up and coming talent in the Scottish music scene. In June of this year, we had 12 exciting artists in Pitlochry, giving them a platform to perform in front of our festival goers. With artists like David Delinquent & The IOU’s, Forgetting The Future and Copper Lungs all making it to the main Heartland Stage for #HF25.

In the past few months, we have received (without any exaggeration) hundreds of applications from individuals and bands looking to be a part of our festival for 2025. The response has been overwhelming but we need to narrow this down to just twelve and this is no easy task.

Marion McDonald, our Artists Liaison for The Heartland Festival, said “It’s amazing to receive so many emails and messages from artists looking to perform at next year’s festival. We have already managed to secure some discovery acts already which we will be looking to announce in the coming months” Marion added “On behalf of the festival committee, I would like to thank everyone who has applied. We are now no longer accepting applications and I am doing my utmost to shorten this down to a select few to go and watch play live before announcing”

In the coming weeks/months, we will be looking to drop feed the announcements across social media and on our website and we hope you can join us in showing support for these up and coming artists.

Our Discovery Stage is just that, discovering music you might not have heard and there may be some nice surprises for you along