Video: “Caledonia” @ Balver Höhle Irish Folk Festival

Rapalje is performing “Caledonia” at The Balver Höhle

The Balve Cave is the biggest cultural cave in Europe. It is located in Balve, Germany. And every year the Festspiele Balver Höhle organization is presenting the Balver Höhle Irish folk & Celtic Music Festival.

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Video: Raggle Taggle Gypsy @ Balver Höhle Irish Folk Festival

Rapalje is performing “Raggle Taggle Gypsy” at The Balver Höhle

The Balve Cave is the biggest cultural cave in Europe. It is located in Balve, Germany. And every year the Festspiele Balver Höhle organization is presenting the Balver Höhle Irish folk & Celtic Music Festival.

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Video: Wat zullen we drinken @ Balver Höhle Irish Folk Festival

Rapalje is performing “Wat zullen we drinken” at The Balver Höhle

The Balve Cave is the biggest cultural cave in Europe. It is located in Balve, Germany. And every year the Festspiele Balver Höhle organization is presenting the Balver Höhle Irish folk & Celtic Music Festival.

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Video: Irish reels with dance @ Balver Cage Irish Music Festival

Rapalje performs 2 reels: Sally Gardens & The Congress Reel

at The Balve Cave (German: Balver Höhle). The biggest cultural cave in Europe. It is located in Balve, Germany.

With to Irish hard shoe dancers and David Myles on Scottish Border Pipes

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Video: Are You Sleeping Maggie @ Balver Hoehle Irish Folk Festival

Rapalje performs live at the Balver Hoehle Irish Folk Festival in Germany

with the Scottish folk song “Are You Sleeping Maggie”

We learned this song from the well known Scottish folk band The Tannahill Weavers

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Video: The Crown and the Ring @ Folk im Schlosshof

The “Folk im Schlosshof Festival” took place in Bonfeld twelve years long, onetime a year, usually in June.

It was one of the best folk festivals in Europe. We are not claiming this without reason, that’s what the musicians, the visitors and the press say. Some of the most prestigious bands like the Dubliners, the Oysterband, Show of Hands, the Levellers, Rapalje and many more played at “Folk im Schlosshof”.

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Caledonia – Rapalje @ Folk im Schlosshof 2009

The “Folk im Schlosshof Festival” took place in Bonfeld twelve years long, onetime a year, usually in June.

It was one of the best folk festivals in Europe. We are not claiming this without reason, that’s what the musicians, the visitors and the press say. Some of the most prestigious bands like the Dubliners, the Oysterband, Show of Hands, the Levellers, Rapalje and many more played at “Folk im Schlosshof”.

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Video: “Never Mind the Strangers” at Maceal’s

In our second video we are playing my favourite Rapalje song at my house

The next song is from our first album we ever recorded.

And we performed it a bit different: Dieb played the accordeon. I played on the gitouki and mouth organ. It changed a bit. Now we have David, playing the flute. Or the tin-whistle

And we want to sing this song for you because it’s my personal favourite. It’s kind of the glue that held or binds us together for the past 21 years:

It takes two to get together. It takes time to make it last. Never mind the strangers

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Video: I’m Into Folk from The Radios

Performance from “Into Folk” by Dieb and Maceál from Rapalje in a theatre in the Netherlands.

Dieb demonstrates his LOUD violin trick. The Radios was a Belgian pop band that was founded at the end of the 1980s by singer/songwriter Bart Peeters.

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Video: Castlefest 2017 komplettes Konzert

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