Glasgow’s newest festival has announced its first wave of acts.
Returning to Rouken Glen Park for its second year on June 8 and 9 with an even bigger programme.
Spanning two stages, the festival will also boast an expanded family area, with daily sessions with Ceilidh Tots, and workshops for budding musicians as well as secret sets from some very special guests.
The 5,000-capacity festival burst onto the Scottish events scene this summer welcoming around 8,000 music fans and tickets for its second edition are on sale now.
The 2023 event saw more than 30 performances from some of Scotland’s most exciting musical talent and a warm, inclusive atmosphere which earned it a nomination for Event of Year at this year’s MG ALBA Scots Trad Music Awards.
Taking one of the coveted headline slots will be folk-electronica powerhouse Niteworks, who closed this year’s Royal National Mòd with a sold-out concert co-hosted by The Reeling. They will be joined on The Reeling bill by award-winning Celtic outfit Ímar, who return to the event after delighting crowds this year with a secret set on the festival’s second stage, A’ Choille.
Elsewhere, innovative 2024 SAY Award Shortlist piper Brìghde Chaimbeul and acclaimed fiddle player Aidan O’Rourke will make their Reeling debuts. Acclaimed folk singer and guitarist Kris Drever and esteemed Gaelic singer Kathleen MacInnes also join the line-up, as well as award-winning folk singer Siobhan Miller and transatlantic folk band The Magpies.
MG Alba Scots Trad Music Awards Gaelic Singer of the Year Kim Carnie will take to the stage, along with acclaimed vocalist Hannah Rarity.
Also performing are award-winning Scottish trad group Kinnaris Quintet, three-time Scots Trad Music Awards nominees Gnoss, as well as emerging Edinburgh-based singer-songwriter Rosie H Sullivan, while Spanish folk group Deira are set to showcase their contemporary take on traditional music.
The festival will also welcome iconic Scottish fusion band Croft No. Five for one of their first performances together since 2018, with more acts to be announced in the coming months.
The Reeling Festival Director Michael Pellegrotti said: “It feels fantastic to be returning to Rouken Glen Park in 2024 with some more of the most exciting names in Scottish music and beyond. The park proved to be the perfect venue for a new festival and we were blown away by how many people came from near and far – it was another landmark moment for Scotland’s traditional music scene.”
The festival is part of the Keychange initiative, committed to at least a 50 per cent women and gender minority line up, and is part of 1% for the Planet which sees 1 per cent of all sales go to environmental causes.
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