Wardruna is honored to announce their participation in Fire In The Mountains 2025 from July 25 to 27, both as a performing artist but also as a collaborative partner with the Blackfeet Nation and the festival organizers.
Fire In The Mountains is centered around community, connection to music and the natural world, making it a natural fit for the Norwegian outfit. While previous years have seen the festival set amidst the Tetons, the 2025 incarnation moves to the Red Eagle Campground, in Northwestern Montana’s Blackfeet Nation. In partnership with the community in the Blackfeet Nation, Fire in the Mountains 2025 at the Red Eagle Campground in the Blackfeet Nation will be an event without alcohol. This decision was made with respect to the wishes of the hosts and is a decision the festival aligns with.
Tickets for the 2025 festival are on-sale this Friday, October 11, at 10:00 am local time here.
“Wardruna is honored to take part in this one-of-a-kind multi-cultural gathering on the sacred tribal lands of the Blackfeet Nation”, Wardruna’s Einar Selvik shares. “Fire In The Mountains is a unique festival to begin with. Their wholehearted focus on the importance of connection to land and culture as well as personal growth as human beings, is something that resonates very much with the work of Wardruna. The festival’s newly formed alliance with the Blackfoot Nation further adds to its potential importance and depth.
For us, this will be so much more than a concert. It will be a chance to learn and share knowledge. A chance to constructively stand with indigenous needs. A chance to be part of a gathering which genuinely seeks to leave behind long-lasting positive footprints for the hosting land, its people as well as the attending audience and artists. Sustainability, by way of creating a multitude of positive synergies”.
Leading up to Wardruna’s recent performance at Red Rocks Ampitheatre, the group was invited to take part in a meeting at the University of Colorado Boulder between the Blackfeet Nation, Fire In The Mountains, the non-profit Firekeeper Alliance, AISA Music, By Norse Music, and Wardruna. All parties are aligned toward the purpose of creating an experience with a positive impact on both the Blackfeet community and everyone who gathers on the festival grounds next July.
“We are thrilled to create a truly special experience at Fire in the Mountains alongside Wardruna, By Norse Music, The Blackfeet Nation, and the Firekeeper Alliance”, the festival organizers said, collectively. “We started Fire in the Mountains nine years ago with the dream of bringing Wardruna to play at the festival in front of the Rocky Mountains. Our dream will finally be realized, ten years later, but now with a much deeper purpose and a much greater impact than we ever could have imagined”.
Red Rocks Amphitheatre Ticket Donation
Honoring the newly established collaboration, Wardruna will donate $1 per ticket sold of their recent concert at Red Rocks Amphitheatre to The Firekeeper Alliance. This non-profit organization based in the Blackfeet Nation in Browning, Montana, is committed to reducing suicide rates among the Blackfeet and other Indigenous communities throughout the state through culturally appropriate mental health support, education, advocacy, and community-wide postvention initiatives.
By Norse Music Curation
In addition to the performance from Wardruna, By Norse Music, the Nordic cultural platform founded by Einar Selvik of Wardruna himself, Ivar Bjornson (of Enslaved, the festival’s first ever guest curator in 2022) and Simon Füllemann of AISA Music, are partnering with Fire In The Mountains 2025 to present a showcase of curated performances as well.
More news about the collaboration and music curation will follow soon. Wardruna’s performance at Fire In The Mountains 2025 will be in support of the recently announced album Birna, which arrives on Jan. 24.
European Tour Dates 2024:
November 7 Milan, IT Teatro Degli Arcimboldi
November 8 Zurich, CH The Hall
November 9 Paris, FR Salle Pleyel (with special guest, Jo Quail) (Sold Out)
November 11 Hamburg, DE Laeiszhalle (Sold Out)
November 12 Berlin, DE Tempodrom
November 14 Lyon, FR Amphithéâtre 3000
November 15 Frankfurt am Main, DE Jahrhunderthalle
November 16 Nürnberg, DE Meistersingerhalle (Sold Out)
November 17 Vienna, AT Konzerthaus
November 20 Halle, DE Händelhalle
November 21 Prague, CZ Forum Karlin
November 23 Utrecht, NL Tivoli Vredenburg (Sold Out)
November 24 Utrecht, NL Tivoli Vredenburg (Sold Out)
November 26 Düsseldorf, DE Tonhalle (Sold Out)
Australian & New Zealand Tour Dates 2025:
January 23 Melbourne, AU Palais Theatre
January 25 Sydney, AU Enmore Theatre
January 27 Brisbane, AU Fortitude Music Hall
January 30 Auckland, NZ Kiri Te Kanawa Theatre
European & UK Tour dates 2025:
March 17 Liverpool, UK Philharmonic
March 18 Birmingham, UK Symphony Hall
March 19 London, UK Royal Albert Hall
March 21 Bristol, UK Beacon
March 22 York, UK Barbican
March 23 Dublin, IE Olympia Theatre
March 25 Glasgow, UK SEC Armadillo
April 26 Oslo, NO Operaen (Sold Out)
April 27 Oslo, NO Operaen (Sold Out)
April 29 Trondheim, NO Olavshallen
May 2 Kristiansand, NO Kilden
May 3 Stavanger, NO Konserthuset
May 4 Bergen, NO Grieghallen
June 7 Reykjavik, IS Harpa
July 30 to August 30 Rasnov, RO Rockstadt Extreme Fest
(Special guest Jo Quail on March UK and IE dates)
From the “Runaljod” album trilogy (2009, 2013, 2016), exploring old Norse myths, traditions, and language through the 24 proto-Norse runes, the sound of Wardruna evolved and blended into the stripped down, acoustic compositions on “Skald” (2018). The group’s most recent album, “Kvitravn (White-Raven)” (2021), explored Northern sorcery, spirit-animals, animism, and the act of creation – the ever-interchanging prolific relationship between the skaldic poet and nature itself. The record charted in 13 countries, including #1 in Canada and Austria, and #2 in Germany. Wardruna has performed at multiple manmade historical locations including Odeon of Herodes Atticus, the Acropolis, Bulgaria’s Ancient Theater of Philipoppolis, as well as locations set amidst natural wonders such as Red Rocks Amphitheatre in Colorado. Alongside his work with Wardruna, Einar Selvik has composed music for large tv and game productions such as “Vikings” and “Assassin’s Creed – Valhalla”, he gives tutorials and lectures on Old Norse literature, musicology, instruments and philosophy, and he has worked with renowned artists such as Mari Boine, Tina Guo, Matoma and Eivør, including appearances on Norwegian, Danish and Polish national television.
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