Wardruna will not only headline the 2025 version of the Fire In The Mountains festival, they’re also collaborating with The Blackfeet Nation, as the festival will take place at Red Eagle Campground in Northwestern Montana’s Blackfeet Nation.
In partnership with the Blackfeet Nation community, Fire in the Mountains 2025 at the Red Eagle Campground in the Blackfeet Nation will be an alcohol-free event. This decision was made with respect to the wishes of the hosts, and it’s one the festival aligns with. Tickets for the 2025 festival are on sale now.
Wardruna’s Einar Selvik states:
“Wardruna is honored to take part in this one-of-a-kind multi-cultural gathering on the sacred tribal lands of the Blackfeet Nation. 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.”
The festival organizers comment:
“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. 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, 10 years later, but now with a much deeper purpose and a much greater impact than we ever could have imagined.”
Wardruna have pledged to donate one dollar of each of their recent ticket sales at Red Rocks Amphitheatre held on October 3 to The Firekeeper Alliance. This Blackfeet Nation nonprofit based in Browning, Montana is committed to reducing suicide rates among the Blackfeet and other Indigenous communities throughout the state via culturally appropriate mental health support, education, advocacy, and community-wide post-vention initiatives.
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. More news about the collaboration and music curation will follow soon.
Wardruna’s new album Birna drops January 24.
Photo credit: Al Overdrive
