The music festival was a huge success over the weekend.

With over 100 acts performing across last weekend at more than 15 venues, Dart Music Festival brought growing crowds out into the sunshine to enjoy the music.

The headline act, Dodgy, a stalwart of the 1990s Britpop era brought quite a crowd. In addition, a special performance from Charles Hazlewood and his All Star Collective offered a great performance on Sunday at St Saviours Church.

Robin Foale, the chair of Dart Music Festival said: “That’s it folks, the Dart Music Festival 2018 is over for another year. We hope you’ve loved the bands you’ve seen before and discovered the acts you’re going to love in future.

“We hope you’ve eaten well (weren’t the hog roasts amazing?) and maybe had a couple of drinks - in your reusable, recyclable DMF cup of course!

“We’ve had rain, we’ve been cold and we’ve even had some sun. We’ve had smiles, laughter, hugs, stresses and tears.

“We wouldn’t be able to do this without your donations and the support of our sponsors. We truly appreciate every penny you are able to give.

“And you know what? We’re going to do it all again in 2019. Until then, lots of musical love from the very tired and very happy Dart Music Festival Committee 2018.”

During the event, the organiser like to book bands from the local area including Dartmothian singer/songwriter Connor Everitt, the BRNC Big Band and the Brixham based The Manouche Jazz Quartet.

This year, the music festival provided their own DMF Festival Cups. Each cup is solid and sturdy, reusable and fully recyclable and available from the merchandise tent or any pubs supporting the scheme.

Continuing the recycling theme, DMF also announced its new initiative with Devon Contract Waste which ensured all rubbish from the event being zero to landfill.

Jess Heywood, a piano teacher, celebrated her 30th anniversary as a teacher with another appearance at the Dart Music Festival in the Flavel on Saturday.

This popular feature of the festival is almost a junior music festival in its own right featuring the youngest pupils to Jess’ older pupils who confidently perform anything from J.S. Bach to the Harry Potter theme.

She joined some of them with piano duets and most impressively a cello duet with a young man who had only been learning for five weeks.

After thanking all the performers for their hard work, the audience gave Jess a round of applause for 30 very successful years teaching.