Music fans enjoy sunny festival at converted coal mine

Colonel Mustard and the Dijon 5 - wearing their signature yellow accessories - perform to a small crowdImage source, Mike Bolam
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Colonel Mustard and the Dijon 5 were one of the acts at the festival this year

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Music fans have enjoyed a weekend of festivities in the south of Scotland at perhaps one of the most unusual festival spots in the country - a former coalmine.

Acts including The Hoosiers, Toploader and The Lutras performed at Music at the Multiverse on Saturday and Sunday, held at the Crawick Multiverse in Dumfries and Galloway.

The landscape artwork was created by architect Charles Jencks on the site of the old opencast mine.

It is the fourth year that the festival has been held and it offered an expanded range of facilities for fans.

Man punching the airImage source, Mike Bolam
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DJ Paul Cooper took part in the fourth edition of the event

Music act at festivalImage source, Mike Bolam
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Ebb were among the acts who performed across Saturday and Sunday

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A range of musicians - including Kate Kyle - took part in the two-day festival

Festival goersImage source, Mike Bolam
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The festival is held on the site of what was once an opencast coal mine

Festival goersImage source, Mike Bolam
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Saturday's weather was particularly kind to the event

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The area was turned into a landscape artwork by Charles Jencks

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The Crawick Multiverse forms a spectacular backdrop to the festival

Toploader in actionImage source, Mike Bolam
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Toploader were one of the headline acts

Little music fanImage source, Mike Bolam
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Music fans of all ages were in attendance