COUNTRY singers rubbed shoulders with horse traders and dulse sellers on the first day of the Auld Lammas Fair yesterday.
The fair, Ireland's oldest, attracts thousands of visitors to Ballycastle, Co Antrim, every year to sample its famous dulse and yellow man.
Hundreds of stall-holders come to the event from across the north to sell everything from cupcakes and cushions to DVDs.
Country stars including Kenny Paul, from Maghera, Co Derry, and Curtis Magee from Strabane, Co Derry, were on hand to sell their CDs and meet fans.
Singer John Watt has been selling his albums and videos at the fair for 35 years and often sings at the event.
"This is the first year I haven't had a stall," he said. "A few people have come up to me and asked why I haven't set up. "I just didn't have anything new this year but I'll be doing a video in Rathlin that starts filming next month."
Mr Watt said stall-holders had done a brisk trade since mid-morning yesterday.
"Curtis Magee has a new album out today and as I was walking by he was doing a lot of business," he said.
"There is a woman from the island of Islay who comes over every year and buys a tape from him."
"I wouldn't miss it myself. I must have come to my first fair when I was eight." Mr Watt said he has seen great changes in the fair over the years but the traditional stalls remain the same.
"There's always the dulse and yellow man," he said. "One man who will be sadly missed is Patsy McGoldrick from Ballycastle who passed away about two weeks ago.
"He sold dulse and yellow man and other novelties for the guts of 40 years. For a lot of people he was Mr Lammas Fair. "Of course there are other families like the Devlins and McKeowns who have been selling dulse and yellow man for generations."