Wardruna is honored to announce their participation in Fire In The Mountains 2025 from July 25th to 27th, 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, United States. 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 our hosts and is a decision we align with.
Tickets for the 2025 festival are on-sale this Friday, October 11th.
“Wardruna is honored to take part in this one-of-a-kindmulti-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, AISAmusic, By Norse, 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, 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 Bjørnson (of Enslaved, the festival’s first ever guest curator in 2022) and Simon Füllemann of AISAmusic, 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 January 24th.
Photo by Al Overdrive
Once again, Wardruna teamed up with Finnish director and photographer Tuukka Koski for the video production of “Hertan”. Koski has previously directed Wardruna´s videos for Raido, Voluspá, and Grá. This time, the production mainly took place during some freezing nights in northern Finland at the island of Hailouto.