Video: “Home Is Where My Friends Are” at William’s

Welcome to my house and my kitchen!

While the meat is simmering, we are playing a song for you, written by me: Home is where my friends are

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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: “Caledonia” at Maceál’s – At Rapalje’s home #4

A real crowdpleaser,

again recorded at my home. David plays the Irish bagpipes, or “Uilleann Pipes”, in this song about Scotland.

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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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Video: “The Galway Girl” at Maceál’s

This week we have recorded a video at my house that you can sing along to.

Even for us it is difficult to sit still during this song!

Thank you for listening again and watching us playing new songs for you at my home.

This song is about a very  beautiful woman from Galway. You can sing along: “On the day-a hey-a hey”

a song about the Galway girl..
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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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4K video: Rakish Paddies full album


Rakish Paddies is a CD album from 3 smaler CDs:

Celts in Kilts (1997)
Rakish Paddy (1999)
Wack fol the Daddy-o (2000)

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Video: Welcome to the Home of Rapalje! “Jock Stuart” at Maceal’s

We have recorded a very unique and personal video, just for you!

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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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