We are so delighted to be adding a new Kirkwall event as part of the Orkney Blues Festival weekend of gigs across Orkney.

IAN SIEGAL - widely regarded and lauded as one of the finest blues musicians on the scene. 

Join us at The Girnel (Orkney Sailing Club) on the Kirkwall harbourfront for a Friday evening performance from Ian Siegal ahead of his headline performances during the festival weekend.

This will be an intimate venue and a very unique opportunity to see Ian Siegal up close and personal. Warm your blues appetite before heading out to Stromness to enjoy the festival over the weekend (or check our other events in Burray, Westray and Hoy).

VIP Ticket Holders - this event is included on your ticket!

(Weekend Passes include only our main festival events in Stromness)

Watch on YouTube - https://youtu.be/Hv4TJV8Mtms

Listen on Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/album/2gGjqhOtJgGHXs6nr1iuAl?si=5l0UVga_TumXl8AmEf60UQ

Accessibiilty - Important to note that access is restricted at Orkney Sailing Club due to sets of stairs, any queries please contact the venue. 

More about IAN SIEGAL:

"...the cleverest writer and most magnetic blues performer in the UK."- MOJO.

In more than a quarter century of touring multi-award winner Ian Siegal's mission statement has barely changed: songs that are real, shows that resonate, vocals served raw. Today he is considered by many to be the most compelling British blues artiste since the great names of the sixties.

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Classic Rock tags Siegal "a national treasure," America's blues bible says "vast talent" and MOJO magazine ranks him "the cleverest writer and most magnetic blues performer in the UK." He has taken his music to some 50 countries and presided over a trophy haul that includes two UK Blues Awards, 10 British Blues Awards, four European Blues Awards, two Mojo Blues Albums Of The Year not to mention three US Blues Music Awards nominations - an unprecedented nod for a non-American. And that's just what he has clocked up in the past ten years.

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Siegal is known as a bluesman, but it's just one shade in the palette of an artist who slips between continents, eras and expectations. They say you can't sing the blues until you've lived the life, and when Ian Siegal steps up to the mic, you can hear the slings and arrows. His forte is playing to an audience. He takes command of the stage in a way very few artists alive today can match. Sweat, passion, humour, incendiary slide guitar and a soul-infused voice big enough to fell trees!

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"Siegal is no ordinary man ... a national treasure." - CLASSIC ROCK MAGAZINE

"Siegal maintains his position as one of the most gifted singers and writers in contemporary blues." - MOJO magazine