Rapalje — MPS Festival, Hamburg, 2017

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Why this recording

Split into twenty chapters, the video offers precise landmarks. The Dutch song “Wat zullen we drinken” stretches over nearly ten minutes from 1:14:08, and several medleys pair songs with bagpipe tunes, such as “Heart of Steel – The Caber Feidh” or “Going to the Flatlands – Scotland the Brave”. Released by Rapalje on their own channel, as part of a playlist of full concerts, the film runs 1 h 34, from “Dunmore Lassies” to “Loch Lomond / Farewell to the Creeks”.

— Simon Janvier, live-sound professional and editor of the catalogue

Recording technical sheet

Rights-holding channelRAPALJE Celtic Folk Music
Source statusOfficial — artist’s channel
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Exact runtime
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Metadata checked on YouTube on 29 September 2026.

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Published on August 30, 2026 by Simon Janvier

Filmed live concert by the band Rapalje at the Mittelalterlich Phantasie Spectaculum (MPS), Europe’s largest touring medieval-fantasy festival, at its Hamburg edition (Germany) on 1 September 2017. A Dutch Celtic folk outfit, Rapalje draws on Irish, Scottish and Dutch repertoires, singing in English and Dutch. The 2017 lineup gathers William van der Laan, David Myles (pipes and whistles), Maceál Meijer and Dieb den Boer (fiddle). The roughly 90-minute set strings together Celtic standards and originals — The Galway Girl, Whiskey in the Jar, Fairytale of New York, Loch Lomond, Busindre Reel — in the festive, high-energy atmosphere typical of the MPS. A world-music and Celtic-folk full concert to enjoy for lovers of traditional music, bagpipes and festival captures. An ideal live for discovering Rapalje’s stage energy before a costumed crowd. An independent band recognisable by its long red hair and infectious energy, Rapalje maintains a loyal bond with the medieval-festival crowd. This full capture restores all the conviviality of their Celtic folk.

Setlist

  1. Dunmore Lassies
  2. The Galway Girl
  3. Tjum Tjum (Bum Bum)
  4. De Stad Amsterdam
  5. As I Roved Out
  6. Cooley's / Maid Behind the Bar
  7. Whiskey in the Jar
  8. Fairytale of New York
  9. Tune for a Found Harmonium
  10. Caledonia – Inis Oirr
  11. Here's To You
  12. Never Mind the Strangers
  13. Home Is Where My Friends Are
  14. The Craic was Ninety in the Isle of Man
  15. Busindre Reel
  16. Wat zullen we drinken
  17. Loch Lomond / Farewell to the Creeks

Personnel & credits

  • William van der Laan — vocals, gitouki, tea chest bass, bodhrán
  • David Myles — Highland bagpipes, uilleann pipes, tin/low whistle
  • Marcel « Maceál » Meijer — vocals, harmonicas, gitouki, bodhrán
  • Dieb den Boer — vocals, fiddle, tin whistle, accordion
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Rapalje appears once more in the catalogue; Mittelalterlich Phantasie Spectaculum (MPS), Hambourg, Allemagne, on the other hand, holds this one recording only.

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