The country has a thriving music scene that has been showcased nearly every year for the past two decades at the G! Festival, which counterintuitively is held on and near the beach in a small village ...

In 2024 Eivør Pálsdóttir released her transformative album Enn, and told Prog how she’d dug deep into her Faroese folk traditions, the power of nature and the energy of solitude to make the record. It ...

Hoyma, which means “home” in Syðrugøta’s local dialect of Faroese, has featured 20 concerts by ten different artists who set up in the living rooms of ten different family homes in Syðrugøta. The ...

You likely won't find the Faroe Islands on most travelers' radars, but these craggy North Atlantic rocks stand poised to jolt even the most jaded globetrotter. The Faroe Islands are at once ancient ...

Yet the G! Festival — pronounced “Geh festival” in proper localese — has become a sort of Faroese Mardi Gras, a de facto national celebration of the country’s music and culture. In past years it has ...

The Faroe Islands seem a very unlikely place to hold a music festival. A string of rocky islands located in the North Atlantic between Scotland, Norway and Iceland, it has a population of around ...