{"id":14910,"date":"2022-01-24T11:09:47","date_gmt":"2022-01-24T11:09:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/handsupfortrad\/?p=14910"},"modified":"2022-01-24T11:09:47","modified_gmt":"2022-01-24T11:09:47","slug":"orkney-folk-festival-to-return-to-full-scale-live-event-in-may","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/handsupfortrad\/orkney-folk-festival-to-return-to-full-scale-live-event-in-may\/","title":{"rendered":"Orkney Folk Festival to return to full-scale live event in May"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Stromness is set to come alive to folk music from around the world once again, as the team behind the Orkney Folk Festival<\/a><\/strong> have announced a return to a full-scale live event this spring.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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In the first wave of line-up announcements, 24 acts have been unveiled for the 39th outing of the award-winning festival. Musicians and singers from throughout Scotland will join artists from England, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Canada, USA and India in appearing alongside scores of home-grown Orcadian artists in venues throughout Stromness and the Orkney mainland, over May 26-29.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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This year\u2019s live festival will be the first since 2019, and follows two highly successful digital editions that brought a worldwide online audience to Orkney during the pandemic. A number of artists who were originally scheduled to appear in 2020 – some of whom featured on-screen in 2021\u2019s Virtually Orkney Folk Festival – have been rebooked and will now take to the stage this May.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Leading Scottish artists Karine Polwart, Skerryvore and Blazin\u2019 Fiddles will join international favourites at this year\u2019s live return, including Canadian duo Madison Violet and Norwegian\/Swedish firebrands SVER, as well as globetrotting Orcadian artists Fara, Gnoss, The Chair and Saltfishforty performing on home soil.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Festival audiences are set to enjoy a programme of stellar Scottish talent this year, including trailblazers Talisk(recently seen ringing in the bells in front of millions on BBC One\u2019s Hogmanay 2021), four-time Scots Singer of the Year, Siobhan Miller, celebrated West Highland champions D\u00e0imh, BBC Radio 2 award-winning Gaelic smallpipes player Br\u00ecghde Chaimbeul, and Scottish Americana troubadour Dean Owens with his new band, The Sinners.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Shetland fiddler Kevin Henderson will appear in a new transatlantic partnership with celebrated US pianist Neil Pearlman, whilst James Yorkston, Jon Thorne and Suhail Yusuf Khan\u2019s groundbreaking fusion of Scottish song with jazz and Indian classical sarangi will also bring acclaimed international collaborations to Orkney Folk Festival stages. Amongst Scandinavia\u2019s most virtuosic folk musicians, Denmark\u2019s Helene Blum and Harald Haugaard Band are set to return to Stromness, as are further festival favourites including Yorkshire-based singer-songwriter Edwina Hayes, and The Peter Wood Shetland Dance Band.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Completing the bumper Scottish contingent are two exciting groups new to the festival; freewheeling trio The Langan Band, who embrace Celtic, Roma, bluegrass, flamenco, swing and punk influences, and contemporary fiddle, accordion, song, guitar and harp four-piece Tannara,<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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For almost four decades, the Orkney Folk Festival has been famed for presenting the islands\u2019 own folk musicians and singers alongside world-leading visiting artists, with further Orcadian acts announced so far including the piano and fiddle pairing of Jennifer Austin and Eric Linklater, and Orkney song duo Sarah Jane Gibbon and Emma Grieve.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Award-winning Orcadian fiddle and mandolin player, <\/span>Graham Rorie <\/span>is set to be joined by an all-star band in staging The Orcadians of Hudson Bay; a suite of music inspired by islanders who travelled from Stromness to The Hudson<\/span>\u2019<\/span>s Bay Company in Northern Canada during the 18th and 19th centuries. Following a sell out debut at Celtic Connections 2020, the show makes its way home to the Orkney Folk Festival 2022.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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A highlight of the festival in recent years, the festival\u2019s all-Orcadian multi-generational collaboration, The Gathering will return, celebrating a decade at the heart of the festival programme, whilst the annual Fiddlers\u2019 Rally will return for its 39th Sunday afternoon outing.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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As well as shows taking place in multiple venues throughout the festival\u2019s hometown of Stromness across the weekend, concerts are also set to take place in Birsay, Deerness, Finstown, Harray, Holm, Kirkwall and Sandwick as the voluntary-run event makes its long-awaited live return.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Looking ahead to the festival\u2019s live return, Orkney Folk Festival Producer, Bob Gibbon said: \u201cAfter a two year sojourn into the world of online festivals, we are more than excited to be planning a full, physical festival. Live music has taken a severe hit these last couple of years, but there is nothing quite like sitting face to face watching amazing musicians making amazing music.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cThe spirit of the festival will return in full to Stromness and the rest of Orkney, and I can’t wait to see the smiling faces from Stromnessians and visitors alike. Orkney benefits so much from this festival, both culturally and economically, and I must say that the support that we have had from local businesses, and the enthusiasm for the festival to come back, has been genuinely heartwarming. Everyone is keen to get back to normal and let their hair down. Hopefully this festival will kick start the Orkney tourism economy and reinvigorate the musical landscape once more.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The 39th Orkney Folk Festival programme will be published in the spring, with tickets due to go on sale in the coming months. Festival Patronage, offering advance booking and discounted merchandise, will be on sale shortly\/<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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For further information, head to orkneyfolkfestival.com, and follow the festival on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. A sampler playlist of the 2022 festival line-up is also available on Spotify.<\/span><\/p>\n

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