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Finnish Folk Music and the Orkney Folk Festival

Anna Massie presents Travelling Folk live from Orkney, where the Orkney Folk Festival gets underway.

Anna is live from Kirkwall as the Orkney Folk Festival gets underway. She’s joined for some live music by Finland’s Mikko Malmivaara and Veera Kuisma - one half of the captivating Finnish dance band Polenta. She also pays tribute to national treasure Aonghas Grant - known as the left-handed Lochaber fiddle player - who passed earlier this week aged 94.

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1 hour, 55 minutes

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Last Thursday20:00
BBC Radio Scotland except Extra

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Music Played

  • The Chair

    Beef

    • Huinka.

  • Dirk Powell

    Joyful Noise (For Courtney)

    • Wake.

  • Polenta

    Highway Home

    • Matkaaja.

  • Mikko Malmivaara and Veera Kuisma

    1. Taklax G & Mats Näsi

    • BBC TRAVELLING FOLK RECORDING.

  • Mikko Malmivaara and Veera Kuisma

    Kellarin kautta & Koukkulammin polkka

    • BBC TRAVELLING FOLK RECORDING.

  • Polenta

    Suru puserossa

    • Matkaaja.

  • John Smith feat. Lisa Hannigan & The Staves

    To Have So Many - Revisited

    • Gatherings.

  • Beòlach

    Annie’s New Heart

    • All Hands.

  • Elephant Sessions

    After Hours

    • For The Night.

  • Gnoss

    Hjop

    • Single.

  • Allan Henderson, Ewen Henderson, Duncan Chisholm, Sileas Sinclair & Ewan Robertson

    Dalshangie

  • Angus Grant

    6/8 Pipe Marches: Pipe Major Sam Scott / Portree Bay

    • Highland Fiddle.

  • Rebecca Hill and Charlie Stewart

    Angus Grant’s

    • Thawcrook.

  • Mark Copeland

    Talkin’ Gentleman Blues

    • Roots & Reverie.

  • Duncan Chisholm

    Dusk on the Cuillin

    • Black Cuillin.

  • Maura O’Connell/Nanci Griffith

    Trouble in the Fields

    • Transatlantic Sessions Vol 2.

  • Rory Matheson & Graham Mackenzie

    Ascension Jigs

    • Take Six.

  • Old Blind Dogs

    Thin Man: The Thin Man / Hommage à Edmond Parizeau

    • Knucklehead Circus.

  • Graham MacKenzie & Rory Matheson

    Ascension Jigs

    • Take Six.
    • 2025 Blue Door Music.
    • 2.

  • Old Blind Dogs

    The Thin Man / Hommage A Edmond Parizeau

    • Knucklehead Circus.
    • OBD Music.
    • 03.

Broadcast

  • Last Thursday20:00
    BBC Radio Scotland except Extra