Isle of Skye Music Festival at the previous festival. The shortfall was due to much lower than expected crowds at the previous event, after spending large amounts of money on bands. A new two-day festival called "Skye Live" succeeded in Easter 2015 in Portree in the Isle of Skye. The festival took place on 25 and 26 May 2007. Isle of Skye Music Festival The Isle of Skye Music Festival was an annual music festival that took place on the Ashaig Airstrip near Broadford on the Isle of Skye in Scotland. It was one of the earliest festivals in the year, occurring in late May
Skye in poetry and song. The first written references to the island are Roman sources such as the "Ravenna Cosmography", which refers to "Scitis" and "Scetis", which can be found on a map by Ptolemy. One possible derivation comes from "skitis", an early Celtic word for "winged", which may describe how the island's peninsulas radiate out from a mountainous centre. Subsequent Gaelic-, Norse- and English-speaking peoples have influenced the history of Skye; the relationships between their names for the island are not straightforward. Various etymologies have been proposed, such as the "winged isle" or "the notched isle" but no definitive solution