Orkney Folk Festival
An hour of top folk music and chat from the Orkney Folk Festival, as Mark explores the areas around Stromness and Kirkwall with a host of musical friends.
An hour of music and conversation from Orkney Folk Festival, as Mark sends an audio postcard from last weekend's event.
Among the guests are singer and guitarist Kris Drever (Lau), Orkney band The Chair, Irish favourites Dervish, American singer Aoife O'Donovan (Crooked Still) and local storyteller Billy Jolly.
Kris's Peedie Gatherin' - a group including top local musicians - and Aoife perform live in the remarkable Italian Chapel, built by POWs during WWII on the southern Orkney island of Lamb Holm.
There's also a beautiful music session recorded inside the 5000-year-old chambered tomb of Maeshowe, near Stromness. Plus tracks by local acts The Wrigley Sisters and Saltfishforty, visiting acts including Manran and an Orcadian classic sung by Joan Baez.
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Billy Jolly's selkie story
Duration: 02:32
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Music inside Maeshowe - May 2014
Duration: 10:13
Music Played
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Joan Baez
Silkie
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The Chair
The Humours of Tulla / The Silver Spire / Wes and Maggie’s Ceili Croft
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Dervish
Baba Chonraoi
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Kris’s Peedie Gatherin’
The Rose of St. Magnus
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Kris’s Peedie Gatherin’
Farewell to Stromness
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Oran na Cloiche
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Aoife O’Donovan
Glowing Heart
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Saltfishforty
The Yellow and Blue
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Jennifer & Hazel Wrigley
Iris Nicolson's Favourite
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- Wed 28 May 2014 19:00Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 2
