Folk on Foot Classic: Kris Drever on Orkney

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Folk on Foot

Matthew Bannister

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Folk on Foot Classic: Kris Drever on Orkney

Folk on Foot

50 minutes 29 seconds

4 days ago

Folk on Foot Classic: Kris Drever on Orkney

Enjoy this classic episode from January 2020.

The guitarist, singer and songwriter Kris Drever was born and brought up on Orkney, the archipelago off the Northern coast of Scotland which is steeped in history. The walk starts in the main town of Kirkwall with its huge sandstone cathedral commemorating St Magnus who came to an untimely end. In the graveyard Kris sings “Winter Moon”. Then they head off to the shores of the great natural harbour at Scapa Flow where Kris performs his powerful song about the scuttling of the entire German navy there in 1919. They end up at the chapel created in a nissen hut by Italian prisoners during the Second World War – a poignant setting for Kris’s song “Ghosts”.

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