Anstruther Harbour Festival

14/09/2026

😎 Over 6,000 visitors to Anstruther Harbour Festival
🧑‍🎤 83 musicians - bands, buskers & traditional music
🍀 68 raffle winners
🐕 60 dogs in our Dog Show
🎪 45 stallholders
⛵ 39 boats taking part in the Muster
🙂 23 volunteers
💃 21 dancers
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 9 traditional events
🤹 8 family activities
🎪 4 venues
🗓️ 3 days
🎉 1 amazing festival

Thank you everyone 👏👏👏

Please take a couple of minutes to tell us what you liked and how we can make it even better next year https://forms.gle/evD6m6oRXCVHGXBY7

09/09/2026

A huge thank you to all the fantastic bands, singers and buskers that played this year

Our brilliant headliners Miracle Glass Company and NatiDreddd with support acts Crowpony and Niamh Corkey

Local bands Kingdom Collective Fife , Definition band , The Long Road , Callum Gibson, Dovv , Euan Black, Edenbank , Cornfield Chase , Burn The Maps and Sarah Banjo and The 2Beat Gospel

Our buskers Simeon Chien, Uke That, Brendan Freeman, Coconut Muffin, Chuba, David Scott, Arthur Meldrum, The McGs, Slow for a Poet and Craig Brown

And of course our fantastic "host with the most" - Sarah 🪕

07/09/2026

A few more thanks today

⛵The Scottish Fisheries Museum for being a great host venue
⛵Callan and Marnie, this year's Fisher Lad and Lass
⛵Everyone who delivered workshops, activities and shows including Joss Cameron, RSCDS Edinburgh, Little Neuk Storytelling Centre, East Neuk First Responders and Cupar and District Pipe Band
⛵ Methil Sea & Royal Marine Cadets - TS Ajax and all our other brilliant volunteers
⛵ Legends, Anstruther for keeping everyone refreshed
⛵ East Neuk First Responders for keeping everyone safe
⛵ All the fantastic music acts for keeping everyone entertained
⛵ Robert Adamson Hair Design Pittenweem for making delicious tablet for us to sell

06/09/2026

We've now contacted everyone (winners in comments) that won a prize in our raffle so if you haven't heard from us we're sorry😊

Thanks to all the amazing local businesses that donated prizes - Adamson Hair Spa, Anstruther Fish Bar , Anstruther Golf Club , 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑩𝒂𝒏𝒌 𝑨𝒏𝒔𝒕𝒓𝒖𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓 , Blacketyside Farm, Bonn Pizza , Bread & Butter Cafe , Bread and Bottoes, Butchery at Bowhouse, The Cellar at 24 ,Clock Tower Cafe, The Cocoa Tree, D&J Cleaning Services, David Lowrie, J Doig & Sons, BistroDory , Dos Mundos , Dreel Tavern, East Neuk Gallery, East Neuk Kilnhouse, East Neuk Market Garden, East Pier Smokehouse, Elie Deli, Feta Street Food , 𝐅𝐢𝐬𝐡 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐂𝐡𝐢𝐩𝐬 𝐨𝐧 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐖𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐧𝐭, The Flower House, FMA Pittenweem, The Fudge Lass - Anstruther , Gibbles, Gifts, Cards & Home , Halo Hair Design, Harbour Interiors, Kingsbarns Distillery & Visitor Centre , Living Apothecary, Loch Lomond Travel, Monturpie Restaurant, The Oak Tree Anstruther , Pathhead Nursery, Penman's Butchers , Petit Bazar, Rabbie's , The Rockies Restaurant , Rogue, The Scottish Fisheries Museum Seaside Saunas , The New Ship Tavern - Anstruther , The Ship Inn, Elie , St Andrews Farmhouse Cheese Company, Stocks Kitchen, Stuart Barton Physiotherapy & Fitness , Sula Boat Trips , Scoop, The Waterfront Restaurant , 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐖𝐞𝐞 𝐂𝐡𝐢𝐩𝐩𝐲 𝐀𝐧𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐮𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 , West Braes project and all the fantastic stallholders who donated prizes for festival goodie bags (sorry FB doesn't let us tag everyone)

03/09/2026

Thanks to everyone who provided the funding to help us put on a great festival this year.

❤️ Grants from:
Fife Council, Fife Strategic Events Fund, Helen Main Trust, Kinburn Trust, Murray Library Trust, NnG Offshore Wind farm Fund and Norah Weber Foundation

💚 Sponsorship by local organisations:
Anstruther Pleasure Cruises, Anstruther Fish Bar, Community Kist, East Neuk Cruising Club, East Neuk of Fife Probus Club, Fife Properties Estate & Letting Agents East Neuk, Metaflake, Rotary Club of Anstruther & East Neuk and Silverdyke Holiday Park

💙 And everyone who donated to our crowdfunding campaign

02/09/2026

One more day to get your entry in for our Best of the Festival photo competition to win £50 cash. Did you take a photo that best demonstrates the spirit of the festival? Full details on our website

01/09/2026

Huge thanks to all the local businesses and stallholders that provided raffle prizes this year. We've been in touch with most winners but will post a full list this week.

We've had some great feedback already and ideas for future festivals so if you've not already done it, please take a few minutes to fill in our short survey.

We want to hear about your experience of visiting the festival so please take a few minutes to complete this survey. All responses will help us improve future festivals.

01/09/2026

Two umbrellas left in the marquee on Sunday night-if you want to collect them please message us. Otherwise we'll donate them to The Community Kist

31/08/2026

Took photos over the weekend at the festival?

Enter our photo competition and you could win a £50 cash prize!

It's free to enter and you can enter as many photos as you like.

For full details on how to enter and terms and conditions go to www.anstrutherharbourfestival.org/photos

The closing date for entries is 5pm on 2nd September 2026 so get those entries in soon!

31/08/2026

What did you think of this year's Anstruther Harbour Festival?

Please take a couple of minutes to give us your feedback in this short survey and help us make next year's even better

We want to hear about your experience of visiting the festival so please take a few minutes to complete this survey. All responses will help us improve future festivals.