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Only around 800 tickets are sold for this intimate annual concert held inside a converted fish factory in a remote village of 130 people, with a cult reputation for extraordinary folk, indie and world music acts in a once-in-a-lifetime setting.
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"Marking its 10th anniversary and the 240th year of Eskifjörður as a trading town, this East Iceland harbour village festival blends music, community events and local heritage over four summer days."
Útsæðið
"Reyðarfjörður's quirky annual Hernámsdagurinn (Occupation Day) commemorates the British wartime landing on 1 July 1940 with a historical walking tour, maritime-era exhibitions, music, and free entry to the Icelandic Wartime Museum, all rooted in the town's unique harbour-side wartime heritage."
Hernámsdagurinn
"A week-long arts and music festival founded by young locals in the rainbow-streeted fjord village of Seyðisfjörður, blending gallery exhibitions, workshops, live concerts, market pop-ups and a harvest weekend finale in one of Iceland's most painterly small towns."
LungA Art Festival
"A community music festival held in the small East Fjords fishing town of Neskaupstaður, celebrating a range of genres in a remote and atmospheric setting accessible only by mountain road or tunnel."
Eistnaflug Festival
"The remote Melrakkasletta peninsula hosts one of Iceland's most northerly and atmospheric sheep round-ups, where farmers and riders bring down flocks from the Arctic heathlands to the corrals for sorting and celebration."
Réttir á Melrakkasléttu
"One of the very first réttir of the Icelandic autumn, held in the remote Hrútafjörður valley where farmers and neighbours gather on horseback to sort sheep into circular stone-and-steel pens, followed by singing and brennivín."
Hrútatungurrétt
"A centuries-old community sheep sort in the sheltered Miðfjörður bay district, one of three Northwest Iceland réttir that open the national round-up season on the same September Saturday."
Miðfjarðarrétt
"The Blöndudalur valley's opening réttir brings together farmers from across this thinly populated river dale to sort their summer sheep in one of Iceland's earliest round-ups of the year."
Rugludalsrétt
"Set in the dramatic Eyjafjörður, Iceland's longest fjord, this is one of North Iceland's first réttir, where mountain-fresh sheep stream down to the valley pen as community families celebrate with traditional song."
Hraungerðisrétt
"Hvítársíða's réttir sits in the wide Borgarfjörður countryside where Icelandic saga country meets highland sheep pastures, with farmers sorting flocks by earmark in a traditional wooden and steel pen open to all visitors."
Hvítársíðurétt