Music, Festivals, Traveling, Paganism, Folklore, Dragons (heck, I even have a dragon tattoo, and more planned), Mythology, RPG, Fantasy, Beer, Reading and Gaming.
So, that should more or less cover it, shouldn't it?
This Easter April 22nd-24th, Trolls & Legends Festival in Mons, Belgium will be arranged for the 4th time.
And the theme for the festival: Nothing less than dragons.
So basically 3 days of pagan and folk-inspired music, literature and more in Belgium - a country know for its good beers amongst other things - with Dragons as the theme.
I can only say one thing: Darn that I didn't find out about this before the holidays already were planed and payed for.
It is nevertheless amazing to check the site for the current and past line-ups, as there are a lot of bands focusing on Medieval, Pagan and Folk-inspired music.
One of them, is a German band named Faun. Check out their webpage. They even have this cute MP3-player at the bottom there.
I'll also embed a YouTube-clip from when they perform Egil Saga live, and one without a video with one of my favorite songs named Satyroso.
The ensemble was founded in 2002, and have since then released 6 CD's and 2 DVD's, sold more than 100.000 CD's worldwide and performed on more than 600 venues.
They are released on the labels Screaming Banshee/ALIVE (Germany) and "Noir Records" (USA).
Quoted from their official webpage:
FAUN combines medieval & ancient instruments with modern influences to create an enchanting and powerful atmosphere. The band's performance incorporates many different instruments, including the Celtic harp, nyckelharpa, various lutes, the bagpipes, large Japanese taiko drums, cister, the violin, flutes and even Arabic instruments like dombra, rebab, riq, oud, darabukka and bendir, as well as the melodic vocal section going from solo folk-like and often ambient melodies to chant-like and always enchanting vocal performances with the two female and frontman Oliver s.tyr vocalists combining something truelly magical.. Influences of Celtic folk and medieval music fusing with driving beats draws an ever fast growing crowd of followers.
Enjoy, and perhaps I'll see you at Trolls et Légendes 2012? =)
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