the GEORGE MACKAY BROWN website

~ new for 2004 ~

A Johnsmas Foy
Sunday 20th June at Stromness Academy Theatre
Tuesday 22nd June at Pickaquoy Centre
'I hoard, before time's waste, old country images....'

This year the Festival programme includes unpublished works by GMB, reflecting his life-long interest in Orkney scene and character. With drama and music.
compiled by Brian Murray and Archie Bevan

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Festival Beginnings:

The St Magnus Festival takes place each year in Orkney at midsummer. The festival has its beginning in the first meeting of George Mackay Brown and Peter Maxwell Davies. Information from Orkney Tourist Information 01856 872 856 and online at www.visitorkney.com or from the Festival website at www.stmagnusfestival.com

"I have rarely been more deeply moved. The words were transfigured by the music and the music-makers. The midsummer of 1979 had been given a beauty that had not existed in Orkney before."

George Mackay Brown

see below for Festival Book info

GMB at Sea

NorthLink Ferries have recently introduced their new Orkney and Shetland fleet.

The Hamnavoe [Scrabster to Stromness] is lavishly decorated with GMB quotations etched on glass, captions to photographs, and the lounges and bars are named for Hawkfall, Greenvoe, Brinkie's Brae.

MV Hamnavoe

"The essence of Orkney's magic is silence,
loneliness and the deep marvellous rhythms
of sea and land, darkness and light."
GMB

Summer 2003

St Magnus Festival Book

To celebrate the 25th anniversary in 2002, The Orcadian newspaper published a commemorative book with pictures and quotes from many of the celebrities who have performed at the festival over the years.

St Magnus Festival - A Celebration

Compiled by Pam Beasant.
Designed by Iain Ashman.
Published by -
The Orcadian
300 pages in full colour:

Price £25.
[ISBN 1-902957-17-2]

(A royalty is paid to the Festival on each copy sold)

For further information click on the book cover

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