Celtic Folk Music With A Difference!
Our livestream on Thursday, July 2nd is one you’ll want to see! Then, for the first time since March 15th, our raggle-taggle-gypsy Dieb will be joinin us again to play some songs for you! So make sure you’re ready with your drink at 8pm (CET) so you can let him and us know in the comments how happy you are about this. We are very excited!
Streaming in our studio was so much fun, we even tried a new song! You can watch all our previous livestreams here https://rapalje.com/stream/
See you next stream!
Have you always wanted to take a good look at our studio? Normally we rehearse mainly on the road or during performances, but today we used our studio again. We’ll tell you nice anecdotes about our studio experiences of the past and present and of course play a lot of music for you. And you can ask us questions in the chat or via our Facebook page. We’ll see you on June 19 at 7:00 PM!
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We had a great stream last friday and we talked about all our adventures on the road, did you see it? You can always watch it again here
See you next stream!
We unexpectedly lost our good friend and great light tech Pieter. There are no words to describe this loss, so we made this very short video in his honour.
To let everyone experience a small piece of Zomerfolk, we have done a special live stream. Do you want to enjoy the sounds of the festival at home, then sit back and remember our slogan: “The more you drink, the better they sound.” Several bands have participated so it is a special broadcast with some news you don’t want to miss!
A dinershow with Rapalje!
Will you join us for dinner this Saturday? Then, we will go to ‘Warehouse BBQ’, an initiative of The Cooking Highlander: one of the most famous event caterers in our country. For years they have brought their their famous BBQ to not only our Zomerfolk festival, but also Castlefest, Zwarte Cross, Mañaña Mañaña, Noorderzon and many more. Due to the current COVID-19 crisis, they have, just like us, seen event after event being cancelled. However, they are not sitting still and have come up with the idea to have a barbecue for the city and “Ommeland” (a nickname for the areas of the province of Groningen that lie outside of the city) from their storage and kitchen in Groningen. On Saturday May 16 we give a livestream dinner show at 4:00 pm (CET) with delicious food and lots of music of course! Enjoy your meal!
Date: Saturday May 16th
Start: 16:00
Where: online
Cost: free but we really appreciate a donation via www.rapalje.com/stream
New live stream on Friday, May 8 at 4:00 PM (CET): www.rapalje.com/stream
Due to the current circumstances, not only education is seriously disrupted. Artists also are going through tough times and need to change their compass. For example, there have already been a large number of online concerts by both national and international musicians and the (online) creativity knows no boundaries. Rapalje wouldn’t be Rapalje if we didn’t come up with something new!
On Friday, May 8th, in preparation of the reopening of Dutch schools, an alternative online lesson will be given from primary school De Westerburcht in Eelde, led by no other than four enthusiastic teachers with an unadulterated Highlander profile.
We have put together a tight curriculum with the following components:
– How do the instruments of Rapalje work and what is, for example, a Low Whistle, Gitouki or accordion?
– How about those costumes: does all of Scotland wear a skirt?
– Geography and history: crash course about Scotland and Ireland
The connecting factor is of course music! The phrase “Let the cobbler stick to his last” applies here. In the curriculum various Rapalje songs are included and applied to the situation of the youngest among us. The dreamer, the doer and the thinker: we’ll conquer you all with our unconventional and quirky range of lessons!
You can donate directly to us through our website if you want to support us during this time so that we can continue to play our music for you. You can also subscribe to our mailing so that you are always up-to-date or you can become a Patron to ensure that we can continue to make so many great videos.
We will go sailing on a boat with you! Come along and enjoy the waves, while we go through our repertoire to see which sailor songs we can play for you. Drunken Sailor, Irish Rover, Skye Boat Song; these are of course a ‘must’ but we will play a lot more!
See if we can keep it dry during this live stream on Saturday, May 2nd at 17:00.
You can buy a ‘ticket’ for this livestream or for the effort we take to bring all this live music to you: what you pay for this ticket is totally up to you!