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Wadruna will play Saturday 19 September at the Bockenreyder Inn exclusively.

Wardruna, a special folk project of Einar ‘Kvitrafn’ Selvik (Jotunspor and ex-Gorgoroth), creates ritualistic folk music with traditional instruments such as antlers and wooden logs, inspired by old runes. Fire, water, stones, and branches are also used.

The natural atmosphere that flows out of the speakers is thick, peaceful and transforms any room in no time into an old pagan ritual site complete with trees, fires and druids. With the mighty Gaahl of God Seed (also ex-Gorgoroth) on vocals.

Wardruna’s show will be set apart from the busy and rushing city. The setting in which they will perform is found around a rural inn called ‘In den Bockenreyder’.

‘In den Bockenreyder’ lends its name from a malicious horde called De Bokkenrijders (The Buckriders: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buckriders ). They roamed the lands in the 18th century that are now the borders of the nation states Belgium, Germany and the Netherlands. Their raids were aimed at farmers and monasteries in the region. The story goes they made a pact with the devil and rode at night on bucks.
There is an eyewitness that claimed that the oaths were taken while denouncing of God and vowing obedience to the devil (symbolized by a cut-off hand holding a candle) with the middle finger and the index finger pointed upwards, as well as the thumb.

One of the places these Bokkenrijders repeatedly showed up was at Landgoed de Utrecht (Utrecht Estate), a little south of a little village called Esbeek. On these 2700 acres of land the inn ‘In den Bockenreyder’ is situated. The fascination of the Bokkenrijders horde for the occult, mysticism and magic is the reason Incubate will present Wardruna on that historic site. One of the aims of this concert is to get people in contact with the historic landscape through the sounds and performance of Wardruna.

The programme:
- The public will be taken to the special Wardruna performance by coaches from Tilburg.
- At the inn they can eat and drink in style.
- When the sun begins to set the visitors are led to an grandstand outside.
While darkness falls, torches light the site. Wardruna performs, the sun will set and the atmosphere will be filled with the visuals and sounds that Wardruna stands for.
-After the concert the visitors will be brought back to the city on the same way that they left it, by bus.

This very special performance of Wardruna will be open for everyone with a Incubate 2009 dayticket for Saturday and of course all Incubate 2009 passepartouts. The bus ride will cost a very small additional amount of money.

Inlog also published the following related posts:

• Wardruna – Kauna (Live at Incubate 2009)
• Wardruna: Full live line-up and rehearsal pics
• Wardruna Live at Incubate 2009 – ‘Hagal’
• Famous Incubate bands you didn’t know!
• Metal legend Gaahl leaves metal behind him