Beyond delighted to be finishing up a year of 10th anniversary celebrations back where it all started, FARA return home for Orkney Folk Festival 2025!

Their journey began as members of the ‘Chairettes’ - The Chair’s string section/onstage groupies - but when 2014 Festival Director, Bob Gibbon, encouraged the group to come together in their own right, FARA was born.

That year, they performed their first gig at Orkney Folk Festival. A decade on, with three acclaimed albums under their belt and Highlander Rory Matheson at the piano, FARA bring their innovative yet unmistakably Orcadian sound back to this year’s festival.