stage. Since then, the capacity has grown 18,500 people over two and a half days (3 - 5 August 2017), with an additional headliner being added to the ceilidh warm up on the Thursday night in 2015. Garden Stage 2005 In 2005 the festival was on Friday 12 and Saturday 13 August. This year it had five stages, ranging in size from the Grassroots Tent, which has a capacity of approximately 250 and is dedicated to small acoustic and folk acts, through to the Garden Stage, which is a natural amphitheatre that can hold several thousand people In 2005, new features include the Seedlings Stage for new or unsigned artists and the Venus Flytrap Palais, a stage totally dedicated to the wonderful and sometimes, frankly, weird in music, theatre, cabaret and performance art. Garden Stage Hothouse Stage The Black Isle brewery Grassroots Stage 2006 Garden Stage Hothouse Stage The Black Isle brewery Grassroots Stage Hail Seedlings Stage Venus Flytrap Palais 2007 Garden Stage Hothouse Stage The Black Isle brewery Grassroots Stage Hail Seedlings Stage Venus Flytrap Palais 2008 2008 saw the Tartan Heart Festival win the award for the best Grass Roots Festival (2008) Garden Stage Hothouse Stage The Black Isle brewery Grassroots Stage Hail Seedlings Stage Venus Flytrap Palais cid 2009 The 2009 festival took place on 7 and 8 August, and the headline acts were the Editors and Ocean Colour Scene Garden Stage Hothouse Stage The Black Isle brewery Grassroots Stage Hail Seedlings Stage Potting Shed Stage Mother's Ruin DJ Stage 2010 Feeder Amy Macdonald The Wailers Badly Drawn Boy The Divine Comedy The Levellers King Creosote Twin Atlantic Candy Staton Dick Gaughan The Vatersay Boys 2011 Texas Deacon Blue Ed Sheeran Ben Howard King Charles Frank Turner Skerryvore Teddy Thompson Vintage Trouble Roddy Hart & The Lonesome Fire The David Latto Band (Potting Shed Stage) 2012 Garden Stage Hothouse Stage 2013 Garden Stage (Main Stage) saw James headline along with Twin Atlantic, Pigeon Detectives, Alabama 3, Seasick Steve and many more. Mothers Ruin Stage (DJ Stage) 2014 Tom Jones Reef Frightened Rabbit Billy Bragg Glenn Tilbrook The Temperance Movement Grandmaster Flash Adrian Edmondson & The Bad Shepherds The Vatersay Boys 2015 Garden Stage (Main Stage) Hothouse Stage Grassroots Stage 2016 Garden Stage (Main Stage) Hothouse Stage 2017 The Pretenders Franz Ferdinand Sister Sledge K T Tunstall First Aid Kit Colonel Mustard & The Dijon 5 2018 Paloma