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We are delighted to welcome to Otley Music Festival the fantastic Ranagri, FATEA Band of the Year 2022, to headline our Saturday night session in the wonderful setting of Otley Parish Church.

Alt folk band Ranagri are 4 Irish and English musicians: Jordan Murray, Eleanor Dunsdon, Eliza Marshall and Dónal Rogers. They have forged a new and contemporary sound on the folk scene, winning audiences at home and internationally, an energetic festival band yet equally at home with their more intimate writing and thought provoking lyrics. They are as happy to make you dance as they are to make you smile or shed a tear, passionately delving into current world topics, playing with politics, and creating uplifting music to lyrics with great depth.

Their recent release "Tradition II" is the sequel to their acclaimed album "Tradition" - exploring traditional folk songs - deconstructing and reconstructing - trying to seek out alternative meaning whilst adding the unique Ranagri flavours; harp, flutes, guitars, dulcimer and percussion all woven together with lead vocals and harmonies.

Acclaimed previous albums are "Playing for Luck", "Fort of the Hare", "The Great Irish Songbook" with pop legend Tony Christie, ?VOICES? - recorded at Real World Studios and produced by Grammy-nominated producer Graeme Pleeth, and ?Tradition?, which were both released on GoatsKin Records.

'Oozes class'
Fatea Magazine

'Ranagri - a sound that's completely new, which has great energy and immediately makes you want to dance'
Katie Derham - BBC Radio 3

"There's little to use as a point of reference when you discuss the sound created by Ranagri, stunning, dazzling, remarkable; any of those will do".
Tim Carroll, Folk Words

'Nothing short of Magnificent'
?Liverpool Sound & Vision

http://www.ranagri.com/

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Kirkgate West,

Otley,

West Yorkshire,

England,

LS21 3HW.