And so another festival season draws to a close with the rapturous applause for Ljiljana Butler and Mostar Sevdah Reunion ringing in our ears.

As promised last year, Musicport 2005 did indeed have a lot more in the way of Eastern European and Latin leanings but there was still plenty of music from the other corners of the World to keep the diversity that makes this probably only second behind WOMAD as THE event for UK World Music aficionados.

The set up was much the same as last year with the addition of some Sunday morning acoustic entertainment in the nearby St Hilda’s Church. I’m afraid the images from these sets are rather dull & grainy as it would have been pretty inconsiderate to have used flash or have otherwise encroached on other people’s enjoyment of these unamplified performances.

Otherwise these photos represent a pretty much complete set of all the acts I managed to catch over the 3 days of the festival. There is however one major exception. In my drunken state I rather stupidly managed to leave my camera in the B&B on Saturday night and therefore have no photos of the Saturday night headline performance by Los de Abajo. Perhaps the fact that I wasn’t looking for photo opportunities allowed me to just enjoy the music that much more. I certainly danced like a mad thing and have to rate them as the best live act I have seen all year.

Finally to The Mooses, Flip & Lisa, Bob & Katie and also my new chum Rich, who was stewarding, thank you all once again for your wonderful company throughout another great summer of festival fun. See you all in May.