Glasgow music festival The Reeling announces extended 2025 dates and performances from Dougie Maclean, Eddi Reader and Valtos
A popular trad music festival is set to return in 2025 – and it's adding an extra night due to demand!
Article Source: The Reeling
Last Updated: 27 November 2024 9:15
The Reeling Festival, Glasgow’s summer celebration of Scottish contemporary folk music, will see some of the biggest names on the Scottish trad scene return to Rouken Glen Park on Friday 6th, Saturday 7th and Sunday 8th June 2025 – making the festival a three-day event for the first time.
Contemporary fiddle band Blazin' Fiddles, legendary singer-songwriter Dougie MacLean OBE, six-piece Celtic fusion band Shooglenifty, folk singer-songwriter Eddi Reader MBE and Electronic duo Valtos are set to perform across the Saturday and Sunday dates.
The Saturday and Sunday dates will also see performances from Ciaran Ryan Band, Dàimh, Dàna, Donald & Peigi Barker, Flook, HEISK, Jack Badcock, LÉDA, Liv Dawn, The Paul McKenna Band, Rebecca Hill & Charlie Stewart, Ryan Young, and Tarran, with many more artists to be announced at a later date.
A new Friday date will be headlined by four-piece folk-pop outfit Tide Lines, with Scots singer Siobhan Miller Band, Beinn Lee and Gnoss also supporting.
The date was revealed in a video, soundtracked by a poem written by Black Isle-born writer Colin Bramwell.
The Reeling burst onto the Scottish festival scene in 2023. Despite the festival going head to head with Taylor Swift’s Edinburgh gigs this year, thousands descended on Rouken Glen Park to watch Scotland’s most talented modern trad musicians in action including Elephant Sessions, Kinnaris Quintet, Julie Fowlis and Manran. Gaelic band Niteworks closed off last year’s festival with one of their final shows after more than 17 years together.
The 5,000-capacity event will see the southside park spring to life with world-class performances spanning two stages and a dedicated kids area and Ceilidh Tots events, as well as high quality Scottish food and drink offerings.
The Reeling is founded by Michael Pellegrotti, co-director of Skye Live, the unique and picturesque music festival in Portree on the Isle of Skye which is set to celebrate its tenth anniversary next year. He believes The Reeling in Glasgow can have the same staying power.
He said: “We launched The Reeling just two years ago, and it’s been fantastic to see it grow year on year. Glasgow’s summer celebration of contemporary folk music is now a fixture of the Scottish music scene’s calendar, and that is a testament to the incredible talent that makes the Scottish trad scene so special – and the people who come out to celebrate it.
“We’re so proud of how Skye Live has grown in recent years, and it’s great to see The Reeling prove demand is high everywhere in Scotland. Trad music is hugely popular, and I’m incredibly proud to be extending the festival to meet the demand of fans old and new.”
The Reeling festival returns to Rouken Glen Park from 6-8 June 2025.
Full-line up to be announced. Tickets will be available for presale to subscribers of The Reeling mailing list from Thursday 28th November at 9am, with general sale available from Friday 29th November at 9am. To sign up and access tickets head to thereeling.com
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