Shame - I spent a few days in the Stranraer and D&G areas last week and heard nowt about a Portpatrick festival, informal or otherwise. All my efforts to find even one session to go to anywhere during the week had drawn a complete blank. The D&G tourist board had up to a couple of years ago produced a leaflet guide to local music sessions and events, but even the website searches threw up no results this time.
So I'd echo the plea for local Catters to keep threads going and keep us all informed re stuff happening on their respective patches. It works so well for some areas of the country, so why not for others? Is it just a dearth of Catters in these areas, or is there really no music out there?