The organiser of Helstonbury has summed up this year's event in three words: elation, emotion and celebration.

Looking back over the weekend's events, which took place as always at the Blue Anchor in Helston, Paul Turton said: "There is elation that it went well, emotion because of what the event was, and celebration that it was a party atmosphere and everyone enjoyed themselves."

It was always going to be a bittersweet year, following the loss of some key names involved in the festival. The last 12 months saw the passing of venue owner Simon Stone's son Henry, musician Dave Sugarbeet and, only last month, joint organiser Al Rideout from cancer.

They were remembered throughout the event and on Sunday Paul and Simon, joined by his wife Kim and their sons Ben and Jake, spoke on stage about Al and Henry, thanking the people of Helston for their support during such a difficult time.

This year saw a new Helstonbury Introduced Stage at the front of the pub, shining a spotlight on the graduates of Al's Kids Like to Rock Stage who are not yet on the main stages, joining the Acoustic, Cannon, Introducing, Music Foundation and Special stages.

The festival also began a day earlier than usual, with a Fringe event on the Thursday featuring Helston School Jazz Orchestra, and Paul said this would return again next year.

Final figures show that £13,020 was taken on the door this year.

Paul thanked all the bands for giving up their time for free, 'Team Helstonbury' for helping set it all up and sell merchandise and tickets, the bar staff at the Blue Anchor for keeping everyone refreshed, Cabin Fever Audio for providing the sound, Holly Turton for designing this year's T-shirts and Culdrose chaplain Janice Honey-Morgan for leading a "beautiful" Sunday Service with the Military Wives Choir and HMS Seahawk Military Band, remembering the centenary of the end of World War One together with those lost in the Helston community in the past year.

He gave a special thank you to Simon, Kim, Ben and Jake Stone saying: "Despite recent times of tragedy in their lives, they still found the strength to carry on keeping the Blue Anchor in the heart of the community and allowing Helstonbury to put all this on."