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  1. orkneyfolkfestival.com

    Orkney Folk Festival

    https://orkneyfolkfestival.com

    Our Orkney Friends supporter scheme is now open ahead of the 2025 festival. By joining, you can support our volunteer-run event and the part it plays in celebrating folk music. Your membership offers great benefits in return. For the 2025 festival this includes: Exclusive events during the festival weekend; Early ticket access; 10% off festival ...
    • Artists (2023)

      ARTIST SPOTLIGHT: Malin Lewis Innovator, award winning, multi-instrumentalist Malin Lewis melds Scottish West coast tradition with a newly invented, self-made bagpipe alongside stars Sally Simpson (fiddle) and Ali Hutton (guitar). Hair tingling, philosophical and dance inducing melodies inspired by European folk traditions, queerness and the universe.

    • Programme

      You can view our 2024 programme using the links below: Orkney Folk Festival 2024 programme (PDF) Orkney Folk Festival 2024 programme (online magazine). Our 2025 festival programme will be released in March 2025, with tickets on sale shortly after. Bring the family! We're proud to be a family friendly festival. We offer reduced rate tickets... Read more »

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      ARTIST SPOTLIGHT: Dragon Song Productions Dragon Song Productions is an Edinburgh based early years theatre company, specialising in interactive productions for babies and children aged six and under. Founded in 2019 by Rachel Huggins, the company has developed three productions; Moon Dragon, Sea Dragon and Ice Dragon. Their performances bring simple, humorous stories to life through rhyme ...

    • About

      Orkney Folk Festival is one of the most prolific and special festivals in Scotland. Established in 1982, with the first event in 1983, the festival is volunteer-run. Its committee works year-round, supported by hundreds of volunteers at the festival. This was one of the founding principles of the festival more than 40 years ago.

    • Supporters

      ARTIST SPOTLIGHT: The Chair Combining a benignly hedonistic version of Viking berserker spirit with a formidable breadth of musicianship, Orcadian eight-piece The Chair deliver a turbocharged mash-up of folk, blues, rock, dub, klezmer and more. Collectively the sound bursts with the energy of a heavy rock gig - a rampant ruckus of fiddles, banjos, accordions and drums - yet remains acoustic at ...

    • FAQs

      Orkney Friends can buy tickets for the number of adults in their membership level, plus children's tickets. However, Orkney Friends can buy tickets for one event per programme timeslot. If you buy tickets for 7.30pm on Friday night, you can't also book tickets for another event at the same time.

  2. scotlandbucketlist.com

    Jan 11, 2024Orkney Folk Festival [23-26 May 2024] If you are a fan of traditional music, you won't want to miss the Orkney Folk festival at the end of May from 23th til 26th May 2023 . The town of Stromness is the focus for all things Trad, as the sound of fiddles resonates around the busy streets.
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  4. The Orkney Storytelling Festival rounds things off in October as the days get shorter. Storytellers come together to celebrate the oral tradition and Orcadian folklore with a special weekend of performances. As action-packed as all these events are, they're positively sedate compared to some of Orkney's festive traditions.
  5. One of Scotland's longer-established folk festivals, the Orkney Folk Festival is a firmly established date in both the UK's folk calendar as well as the Orkney diary of community events, regularly drawing scores of visitors to the islands from throughout the world for a four day weekend ensconced in Orkney's rich, vibrant folk scene.
  6. The Orkney Folk Festival has become one of the most popular events on the Orkney calendar, bringing four days of the finest folk music to the islands. In a typical year, the festival will incorporate around 35 ticketed events across its four days, as well as countless pub sessions and free events in its hometown of Stromness. ...
  7. orkneyfolkfestival.com

    Nov 27, 2024Orkney Folk Festival has announced the first wave of artists appearing at the 2025 event, taking place between 22 and 25 May 2025. The festival is set to welcome a bumper contingent of islanders in the year Orkney hosts the International Island Games, which will see athletes from up to 24 island groups around the world competing in the county ...
  8. orkneyfolkfestival.com

    Orkney Folk Festival is one of the most prolific and special festivals in Scotland. Established in 1982, with the first event in 1983, the festival is volunteer-run. Its committee works year-round, supported by hundreds of volunteers at the festival. This was one of the founding principles of the festival more than 40 years ago.
  9. efestivals.co.uk

    Sep 6, 2024The Orkney Folk Festival is centered in Stromness, Orkney's second largest town. Some events take place in Kirkwall, and in some mainland parishes, as well as one or two of the smaller islands. Camping. There is not a festival campsite, however there is a very well equipped one within walking distance of Stromness town centre, owned and ...
  10. projects.handsupfortrad.scot

    Orkney Folk Festival has announced its full programme for the 2024 event, with acts from around the world set to perform across the islands between 23 and 26 May. Leading artists from Canada, the USA, Australia, Ireland, Norway, England and throughout Scotland will join home-grown Orcadian musicians at the festival in its 41st year.
  11. ukfestivalguides.com

    The Orkney Folk Festival was first held in 1982 and has become a celebration of traditional Orkney music, dance and culture for one weekend each May. It brings together musicians, storytellers, poets, dramatists, dancers and their aud sciences. The festival is held in Stromness and attracts many visitors and locals.
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