Date for Festival 2010 – 27th-30th May.
Mark it in your diary!
Reviews from the festival are starting to come through. Sue Wilson’s already written a couple – one in The Scotsman, and another for Hi-Arts.
We're also in the Shetland Times (29 May), following the festival's Sheltie invasion!
More reviews will be posted on this site as soon as possible, as well as photos and videos. In the mean time check out the festival's MySpace for photos from 2009 Resident Photographer, Tom O'Brien.
25/05/09 – Thank you, and goodnight.
As quickly as it came, the 27th Orkney Folk Festival has now come to an end.
The committee would like to say a huge thank-you to everyone who helped make the event such a success – the artistes, the comperes, the event and whole-festival sponsors, the lighting and sound guys, the venue caretakers, the box office and shop volunteers, the door staff, the raffle sellers, the ushers, the drivers, the soup and sandwich makers, the extremely accommodating and patient Stromness Hotel staff…and especially you, the audiences. Without everyone’s contribution the festival simply could not take place, so we thank each and every one of you.
Photos and reviews of the festival will be posted here as soon as we receive them. In the meantime the dates for the 28th Orkney Folk Festival for your diary are
Thank you all once again, and see you next year.
Most of the photographs on this website are used by kind permission of Lieve Boussauw. Lieve also kindly filmed and supplied the little video clips on the site.
Check out the Official Orkney Folk Festival Myspace site for lots more information, videos and sound bites.