Women come from all over the world to meet at Oban Lesbian+ Weekend. Now in our 4th year. Join us solo or come and meet new friends. Think Castles, Cruises, Ceilidh, LGBTQ+ women & those who are non-binary! KAREN DUNBAR from Chewin the Fat, Headliner, DJ, comedian & compere. Come to our Bad Girls workshop, with Nicole Faraday who starred in the ITV drama, Bad girls as Snowball / Shell Dockley, who will also be singing live. Make friends & dates at our annual ceilidh! Boat Trips - Lesbians, Seals & Dolphins… Day time workshops, Foraging, Yoga, Boardgames and outdoor options. Paddle boarding, Wild Swimming, Yoga, Hikes around bonnie Oban and our surrounding islands. Hosted meals to suit all budgets. Enjoy Oban, The Seafood Capital while meeting new queer women. Solos Welcome! Meet new friends at our ice breakers, couples these work for you to make friends too, as we love our traffic light social games! Don't forget Oban accommodation books up really early, get the best prices by booking our host accommodation early, so you can stay with other women.

The Oban international Shanty Festival has been rocking venues and the streets around Oban harbour since 2022. We have brought the cream of sea shanty singers and musicians to Scotland, many for the first time, as well as nurturing home grown talent to entertain locals and visitors alike with stories and songs of the sea, workshops and exhibitions. Shanties are great fun though created as worksongs they lend themselves to audience participation like no other music genre and their popularity has soared with every TikTok megahit and viseo games of piracy and adventures on the high seas. For the Friday Night Concert in the Argyllshire Gathering, we present the greatest shanty band that England has to offer, Kimber's Men, but also Aberdeen's finest close harmony trio, Tripple. Shanty band Black Deep also make their Scottish debut and we welcome back The Anthony Quines and Alex Cummings from the North East. Also making a welcome return will be Hans "Mr Bones" Weehuizen. No Oban Festival would be the same without him. Nor could we miss out Linn Phipps and her band The Rosabellas.