Rapalje — Balver Höhle Celtic Festival, 2017

Live concert film of the band Rapalje at the Irish Folk & Celtic Music Festival of the Balver Höhle, a vast cultural cave in Balve, Germany, regarded as one of Europe’s largest performance caverns, in 2017. Rapalje is a Dutch Celtic music group, recognizable by their long hair and overflowing stage energy, revisiting Irish, Scottish and Northern European folk traditions with a strong festive sense. Their set blends Celtic songs, rousing instrumental reels and jigs, bagpipes, bodhrán and string instruments, in the venue’s singular, cavernous acoustics, at times joined by Irish dance. This full-concert capture documents a live performance by a popular act of the European Celtic festival circuit, one that has gathered a wide audience around a lively, accessible Celtic folk. With no official setlist published, the song order is not reliably documented. Keywords: Rapalje live, Balver Höhle 2017, Celtic music, Irish folk, world music, bagpipes, live concert film.