TRC Promotions www.myspace.com/stu_trcpromotions started life as a few bands playing at a house party in Turmennan Co. Down in summer 2004, in 2005 it was a few more bands playing on an Island in Donegal.

This the Innishfree Rock Festival ran for three good years, but after a break last year I felt it was time that I put on an event a little closer to home and that didn’t involve bringing everything I needed to run a festival, on a three hour drive and a 15min ferry crossing on to an island with no electricity or running water.  So I looked to Delamont Country Park www.delamontcountrypark.com  in-between Killyleagh and Downpatrick on the shores of Strangford Lough and just 30 mins drive from Belfast. It soon emerged that in the summer 2009 it would be the 10 year anniversary of the erection of the Strangford Stone, and that the strangford stone consortium were planning a celebration as 10 years ago 1000 children from various youth groups in the community all lifted the stone by hand using just ropes and pullys.  So after contacting the consortium and discussing our plans we decided it would be a good opportunity to run our events at the same time.

The plan is to have a one-day live music event, with camping in the grounds of the country park.  To help set Willowstone apart form other similar events, will be the unique setting of the walled garden, within the grounds of the park.  This will be the main stage and bar area, I have commissioned, Clive Lyttle a willow sculptor who has installed various willow sculptures around the park to recreate the Strangford Stone in willow and have it as the centre piece of the Walled Garden, I have also commissioned set designer and artist Francis Barking from the Stoke Newington International Airport www.stkinternational.co.uk to dress the walled garden and install one of his crazy golf courses, a coconut shy and one or two other suprises:




and artist & inventor Paddy Bloomer www.channel4.com/4talent/feature.jsp?id=6527 to install his take on the fair ground





To accompany the great live music and entertainment at the festival will be great locally brewed beer supplied by the Hilden Brewery www.hildenbrewery.co.uk who bring with them three adjoining Te-Pees which will look something like this below.