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If you were wondering who has created the artwork for this year’s poster, read on… Adventures in puppetry & visual theatre have moved Emma around Scotland, Vermont, Nepal, Taiwan, North Carolina & Sri Lanka – touring shows by foot, bicycle, horse & cart, a caravan & beat up old school buses.  Her work is driven
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Pleased to announce our theme.  RIVERS of life, of music, of Knockengorroch! For 2018 we’ll be paying homage to the Deugh and the Bo – the rivers which run through our festival site and on which humans have depended for (merely) thousands of years. We’ll be celebrating during the festival with rivery installations and streamlined
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Cut Chemist, Transglobal Underground and African supergroup Les Amazones d’Afrique are amongst the international traditional and dance music acts participating in World Ceilidh 2018! Both live and dance music artists have been booked from the USA, Mongolia, the Netherlands, Spain, Egypt, Japan and Ghana. Hailing from across West Africa, Les Amazones d’Afrique are an all-female
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Friday 16 March 8pm to 3am The Venue, Dumfries TICKETS Put a spring in your step and a Knockengorroch smile on your face at our Dumfries SPRING SESSION We welcome the Baghdaddies after their storming Bo Airigh stage set at Knockengorroch 2017. An exhilarating cocktail of Balkan, ska, Caribbean and Latin grooves shot through with Geordie
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Heading to the World Ceilidh 2018 with a group of friends? Become one of our champions – spread the love and earn free tickets and more! How does it work? For every friend you bring to Knockengorroch, you’ll earn points which can be redeemed in our reward shop to claim free tickets, Goody Bags and
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FRIDAY 12 JAN 2018 THE CAVES, EDINBURGH Its cold outside but its going to be toasty warm at our infamous winter party. Hard hitting, bass driven, vibrant, live electronic dance-pop from another dimension: Manchester’s premiere mischief makers The Age of Glass are festival favourites – and for good reason.. If you haven’t caught them yet – where
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