Hundreds of local people turned out for a mix of sun, music and culinary delights at the annual Newport Festival.
Local businesses pulled out all the stops to draw in the crowds with boat rides across the River Tay, live performances and a host of stalls highlighting the very best the town has to offer.
Organisers are now hoping to build on its success and are already thinking about how they can expand the festival next year.
Mary-Jane Duncan, from award-winning cafe KitschnBake, said: It was fantastic and the whole village worked really hard to pull it all together.
“Most venues hosted a music slot or two. We held ours outside as it was such a cracking day, so did The Newport and Dave Anderson Marine.
“There were street food trucks, Jamie Scott [from The Newport] doing demonstrations and we put on a special festival menu allowing folks to move more easily between the venues if they wanted.
“We also launched our new local food map that we recently had commissioned, which now has pride of place on the cafe wall featuring all the brilliant local producers near us.”
Simon Rankin, who was involved in helping organise some of the music for the event, agreed the day had been a roaring success.
He said: “It was fantastic and obviously it helped that the weather was so good. We’ve been really lucky over the years and it always seems to be nice on the day.
“There was definitely a few hundred who showed up and with the dance party at night, the bouncy castle during the day and just loads going on, it was a really good mix of different ages as well.
“I hope it will encourage people from Dundee or anywhere really to come and experience Newport and everything we have going on here.
“We plan to elevate it even more next year and build on the success, so hopefully we’ll see even more people next time.”
