Featuring many artists re-scheduled from 2020 our 2022 festival line-up also features some new additions, with more still to be announced!
After naming their Lockdown Gorroch Reel tune after us and featuring snippets of Virtually Knockengorroch in the video, we are so pleased to be finally welcoming the highly anticipated and critically acclaimed European and African based collectiveΒ Afro Celt Sound System. Β Rescheduling their appearance from 2020, the collective will fill the Bo Airigh stage and the hills of Galloway with their driving afro house, bold West African brass, and exuberant electronic rhythms.
New for 2022! A rare UK date for elders of traditional sound system and vinyl culture, the enigmatic French βSir Jamesβ and βKing Johnnyβ, akaΒ LβEntourloop, (main picture) a unique hip-hop βYardie Styleβ show featuring DJs, MCs, live brass and unique visual creations drawing on classic French cinema.
Also joining us forΒ Sundayβs closing performance on the Bo-Airigh stage will beΒ Ross Ainslie and Ali Huttonβs SymbiosisΒ (pictured), two of Scotlandβs absolute finest award winning pipers, appearing with full 5-piece band to offer a masterful blend of the old and the new; modern Scottish folk music at its mightiest!
Co-creators of the Breakbeat genre, internationally renowned UK DJ and producer duo,Β Plump DJs, aka Andy Gardner and Lee Rous will fuse the favourite styles of their youth into their βPlump Musicβ. Self admitted suckers for bass and bringing βthe grooveβ, the duo will have the Festival jumping once more.
Also making their way to Knockengorroch 2022 by way of Belgium and Mali isΒ Kel Assouf, with their unique blend of Tuareg roots and psychedelic rock. With one foot in the Sahara and the other in Europe, Kel Assouf melts African trance rhythms with the energy of vintage rock.
Knockengorroch has long pushed the boundary of βtraditionalβ music, supporting artists that channel the voice of the people, and 2022βs edition is no different, with British-Iraqi rapper and political activist Lowkey set to storm the Shieling Tent.
Scotlandβs Album of the Year Award winner 2020, and DJ Magβs 2021 Best of British Breakthrough MC / Vocalist, NovaΒ (pictured) will bring her uncompromising lyrics to the hills of Galloway, spanning grime, trap, garage, and hip-hop.
Also joining us is future-afro soul vocalist, producer and multi-instrumentalist who draws on her Sierra Leonian heritage, Fehdah, from the front-line of an emerging Irish RnB and electronic music scene.
The natural amphitheatre of the Southern Uplands of Scotland, is the perfect stage for world music, and Knockengorroch has more incredible roots and folk music for its return including:
Festival favourites, and internationally renowned Glasgow-based sound system collective Mungoβs Hi Fi come with their full rig in the original Jamaican sound system tradition bringing dub reggae classics and fresh new productions, dancehall and dubstep to the party.
The original cutting-edge jazz-inflected klezmer and Balkan inspiration of Moisheβs Bagel; an intoxicating, life-affirming mix of Eastern European dance music, Middle Eastern rhythms and virtuoso performances.
The British all-female folk band, at the forefront of the wave that revolutionised traditional Scottish and Gaelic music in the 1990s, The Poozies.
Innovative and multi-award winning ensemble, Don KipperΒ (pictured) bring their psychedelic turbo folk – transformations of the worldβs folk music from Turkish FasΔ±l and Greek Rebetiko to Klezmer.
Performing on an assembly of instrumentation including electric guitar, Elka Panther organ, piano, blues harp and accordion, re-contextualised via effects boxes, samplers and sequencers, experience the addictive, inventive sounds of Callum Easter.
Plus high energy folk pop from Australiaβs Little QuirksΒ (pictured)
Nu-folk from ukulele player and singer Zoe Bestel
Rocking blues for heavy times from John Fairhurst
Trans-European fusion project Blue Giant Orkestar
The soaring re-imaginings of a contemporary orchestra with the Tinderbox Collective
Chamber folk-pop from Twelfth Day
Contemporary folk and virtuoso guitarist Stacey McMullen
Glasgow based creators of positive dancefloor vibrations Samson Sounds
Eclectic Funk Soul Rock Hybrid with a Hip-Pop twistΒ Dopesickfly Β
Blue Giant Orkestar exploding trans-European fusion project
Live bass, dirty analogue synths and old school breakbeats from Midi Paul
DJ Dolphin Boy melds clubbing chops with a love of the traditionally crafted tune
Celtic alternative dance dub folk punkΒ band Tarantism
Unmissable live looped hip hop rock n roll fromΒ Oscar Mic
Cello and mellow vocals from Ceitidh Mac
Triumphant winners of Castle Douglas Battle of the Bands The Fuzzkills make their Knockengorroch debut with more acts to be announced in the coming months, including the full line-up of beat-makers to fill Maddieβs Dance Tent.
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