The Faroe Islands Podcast

This week, we offer a very special episode of the podcast. We talk to Elin Brimheim Heinesen about her new album, which is a collaboraion between Elin, musicians, composers, and arrangers in three different countries, and Elin's late father Jens Pauli Heinesen. Elin has set some of her father's poems to music and set them to an orchestral arrangement. Also, she's translated those poems into English and recorded English-language versions of those songs. The album is gorgeous and emotional and we spend more than 30 minutes talking about how the album came to be, about the life and work of Jens Pauli Heinesen, and his impact on Faroese culture.

We'll also hear some of the songs. We open with a bit of A Chasm Of Precious Time and Sorrow Is Beautiful, Too and near the end you'll hear a little of The Chasm Deep Within .

If you'd like to buy a copy of the album on vinyl or CD (and we highly recommend you do) it's for sale on the TUTL website .

Also, Atlantic Airways has started selling tickets for its 2024 flights between the Faroe Islands and New York. If you'd like to learn more, head on over to the Atlantic Airways website .

On this podcast, we talk about history being made, both big and small.

We start with a bried update on the remarkable rise of KI Klaksvik in the Champion's League qualifying rounds. They've already dispatched teams from Hungary and Sweden, and now stand poised to knock out a team from Norway. They've already become the first Faroese football team to qualify for the group stages of a European tournament. History, indeed.

Then we talk to the CEO of Atlantic Airways about the historic opening of air service between the Faroe Islands and New York.

And finally, we'll visit a long vanished river that has been brought back to life... in the form of a fountain.

Also, we're still in fundraising mode and could definitely use your help to nudge us over the finish line. If you're able, please visit our gofundme page and show us a little love.

On this podcast, we talk about the 20th edition of the G! Festival. We'll hear some of the artists who will perform in Gota next week, and hear about the amenities and atmosphere you can expect at the three-day celebration of music.

After that, we'll hang out in a hotel lobby like we're Duke Fame (that's a deep cut).

We're also still in fundraising mode. You can help us pay for another season of podcasts by heading over to our Gofundme page and showing us a little love.

On this episode, we visit an old salt silo on Suduroy that has been converted to a performing arts center. We'll hear our impressions of the place back in 2010, when it was abandoned and in pretty rough shape. Then we'll see how it's been transformed into what it is today. There will be music. There will be food. There will be a bit of vertigo as we ascend a small spiral staircase. What more could you want?

Also, we're still in fundraising mode. If you can help us head back to the Faroes to record more episodes of this show, head on over to our gofundme page and show us some love .

On this episode, we talk to Glenn Larson who heads up Faroe Music Export (FMX). We talk about the music scene in the Faroe Islands, the challenges of promoting music from a remote country, and how this Norwegian ended up living in the Faroe Islands.

Also, we stand in a big parking lot where we can see both the future and the past of the Faroe Islands at the same time.

At the top of the show, we announce our fundraising campaign for the year. We're heading back to the Faroes to record more episodes of the podcast, and we could use a little help. If you can help, here's the link to our gofundme page .

On this episode of Home and Away, Stella talks to Iuliia from Russia. She's a professional volleyball player, an coach, and a... lawyer? That's right, she can spike whatever you set, then help you sue the other team because they were cheating. (Not absolutely sure that's the type of law she practices, but we can dream.)

We'll talk sport, law, and what it takes to learn a language while also trying to play a team sport.

On this episode, we finish up our conversation with Gudmund Helmsdal. He's the Faroese filmmaker whose short film "Brother Troll" has racked up awards at festivals around the world. He's also worked on "Peter Pan and Wendy" and the last James Bond film, both of which were partially shot in the Faroe Islands. We'll talk abotu the future of filmmaking in the Faroe Islands, and about plans for his first feature film.

Then we go to a church and listen to music from our good friend Stanley Samuelsen,

On this episode, we talk to filmmaker Gudmund Helmsdal about his short film, Brother Troll, which has been hoovering up awards at film festivals around the world for more than a year. We'll talk about his journey to becoming a filmmaker, which started in the Faroe Islands and took him to Denmark and Austrailia before returning him to his home.

Then we'll sit on a bench in Torshavn and think about change.

On this episode, we talk with the head of Visit Faroe Islands about the tourism industry in the Faroe Islands and how its holding up during the weird few years we've all lived through. We also talk about fun things to do when you're visiting in the winter.

We also talk about the (almost) announcement of a new Atlantic Airways flight to New York, and we (almost) stand in the snow in one of the most touristed spots in the Faroes.

Note: The story about the Atlantic Airways story could change at any moment. If there are updates, we will post them in the show notes here, and we'll also do a special podcast when the official announcement comes out.

This week, Stella starts a new series of episodes where the talks to mixed couples about how they met, why they married, and why they chose to make their lives in the Faroe Islands.

The first couple is Nelia and Jan Erik Niclasen. Jan Erik is from the Faroe Islands and Nelia is from the island of Saint Vincent in the Caribbean. They talk to Stella about how they met, why they decided to live in the Faroes, their time living in Denmark, and why they came back.

If you'd like to hear the full, unedited version of this show, and hear more from the Home and Away archives, you can visit the FM1 website .

On this episode, we talk to Sveinur Trondurson about the results of the recent Faroese election. We'll get super-nerdy on the new coalition, the challlenges ahead for the new government, and we pour one out for Self Rule Party, which was one of the original political parties in the Faroe Islands, but was shut out in this most recent election.

Then we'll visit a candidate forum at a university and think about small-scale politics.

On this episode, we cover the national election for the Faroese Law Thing. 160-ish candidates are running for 33-ish seats in the parliament. (There are 33 seats in the Law Thing, but ministerial jobs can push that number up a bit.) We'll visit a polling place, talk to a journalist and a candidate, then head over to the Nordic House and wait for the results to come in.

It's a unique opportunity to view the Faroese electoral process as it happens. But this is a long episode so... pack a lunch.

On our special Christmas episode of the podcast, we capture some of the sounds of the Faroe Islands during Christmastime. We'll visit a museum in Surudoy, and we'll listen to lots and lots of music.

This episode features a lot of music from a concert in Runavik that was being taped for KVF. You can watch the first half of this concert here . Watch the second half here .

Merry Christmas to all of you.

Faroese voters head to the polls this week to chose who will represent them in the Law Thing. On this episode, we'll get an overview of the upcoming election with Sveinur Trondarson, he's the editor of Faroese newspaper Dimmalaetting . We'll also visit a candidate forum in Torshavn and trail our own Heri Simonsen as he casts an early vote at city hall.

The Election is on Thursday, December 8th. No matter where you are in the world, you can watch live coverage of election returns on the KVF website .

This week, Stella talks to Melanie Mellemgaard who was born in South Africa to a South African mom of Indian descent and a Faroese dad. Her family moved to the faroe Islands when she was in school. Stella talks to Melanie about the differences between the two countries and why cooking with butter just isn't the same as with ghee.

Note: When this program aired on FM1, it had songs that we had to remove due to copyright restrictions. If you want to hear the episode with the music, you can listen to the original version streamed from the FM1 website right here .

Also, we're close to reaching our fundraising goal for this year's reporting trip to the Faroe Islands. If you can nudge us over the finish line, visit our gofundme page and toss a few dollars in the tip jar. Thank you.

On this edition of Home and Away, Stella talks to Michael Feldballe about growing up in Denmark, his life in the Faroe Islands, and the benefits of archery. For copyright reasons, we have to remove the music that plays during the breaks, which is a shame because it's quite good. But if you want to listen to a version of this show with the songs included, you can listen to it on the FM1 website .

Also, the Faroe Islands Podcast is returning to the Faroe Islands in about two weeks. This trip is rescheduled from it's original July dates. When we paused the original trip, we also paused out fundraising campaign. Now that it's back on, we're restarting that campaign. If you can help us out, please head over to our gofundme page and toss a few dollars into the tip jar . Thank you.

It has been a year of ups and downs for everyone here at Podcast HQ. So many swings that we had to suspend production of the podcast for a large portion of this year. On this short podcast, we answer the question many of you have been asking, "Are you okay?" We'll also answer questions like, "when are you going to put out podcasts on a more regular basis," "are you ever going back to the Faroes," and, "seriously, are you okay?"

Not to give anything away, but the answers are all good.

Want to make things more good? Come on down to our gofundme page and kick in a few bucks and help us make our next reporting trip to the Faroes a success. (Okay, that was also kind of a spoiler.)

Eivor spent part of July and August on her first headlining tour of North America. On this episode, we hop in Eivor's tour van and travel from Portland, Oregon to Vancouver, British Columbia. On the way, we'll stop in Seattle, spend WAY too much time at the Canadian border, and finally make it to the venue with not a moment to spare. It's a rare glimpse into the everyday life of a working band.

Eivor will be touring Europe in September and October. You can see the tour dates here.

Note: At the end of this episode, we day that this is episode 538. (Apparently we're subconsciously big fans of Nate Silver .) It's actually episode 358. These things happen.

This week, we check out the new feature on Microsoft Translator that now features Faroese. The results are... sort of funny, really. But despite some giggling, the inclusion of Faroese on a major translation app is a big deal. You can try out the app here .
Then we check out the new-ish stadium where EB/Streymur play.

We're still raising funds to help support our next reporting trip to the Faroes. We're getting close to our goal. If you can help push us closer to the finish line, please visit our gofundme page and show us some love.

On this episode, we take a look at FOUR new traffic lights in Torshavn. That's right, in the course of a year the number of traffic lights in the capitol has DOUBLED. That seems like a big deal, which may explain why we've used ALL CAPS in THREE DIFFERENT SENTENCES.
Also, at the top of the show, we'll get an update on our annual fundraiser. If you'd like to donate, you can visit our gofundme page and toss a little somehting into the collection plate.

On this episode of Home and Away, Stella talks to Savior Mifsud about his life in the Faroe Islands, what he misses about Malta, and the perils of photography in windy places. Also, we're raising money to fund a new season of podcasts If you can help out, please follow this link and toss a few bucks into the tip jar.

Note: This is the last episode of Home and Away that will appear in the Faroe Islands Podcast feed. If you want to listen to the archives or hear new episodes, you can listen on the FM1 website .

On this episode, we talk to the director and sound designer of a play that adapts a book written by Carl Johan Jensen. We'll hear about the sounds on stage, and why the director calls the adaptation a "massacre."
Also, we're headed back to the Faroes to record more epsiodes of the podcast. If you can help us fund this new season, please go to our gofundme page and toss a few kroners our way.

On this episode, we talk to Hogni Lisberg. He has been a prominent musician in the Faroe Islands for more than 20 years, having performed with the groundbreaking Clickhaze, performing with Eivor, and having a successful solo career of his own. Now he's launched a music publishing company to help get Faroese songs into TV shows, movies, and advertisements all over the world.

Here's the link to his company's Instagram page .

During the interview, we talk about the band Clickhaze. There is very little of their output that can be found on the internet, but here's a performance they did in 2001 .

On this episode, we talk about how the war in Ukraine is affecting the Faroese economy and people. We'll also get what may be our final COVID update, talk about Faroese bootlegging, and congratulate a bunch of people who won a bunch of prizes.

You can find the Danish website with the COVID entry requirements here .

Wanna see the artist's rendering of the new apartment block in Runavik? Of course you do. Here they are .

On this episode, we pay a visit to... well... kind of the G! Festival, but not really. The 2021 festival was cancelled one week before the music was to start, but on what what would have been the third night of the festival, some music happened on the field that would have held the festival, and that was enough reason for us to show up. We'll hear a little music, talk to some old friends and some new ones, and hope for a better year to come.

UPDATE: Moments after we recorded this show, the festival announced their first acts for the 2022 event. You can see who they are here.

This week, we talk to Teitur about getting knighted, the nature of fame in a country where fame doesn't matter, and why he considers his entire career "career suicide."

Then we listen to a little bit of a stunning song from Elin Brimheim Heinesen, and get a little misty about Christmas.

To hear the whole song from Elin, follow this link .

UPDATE: On this podcast, we talk about the LGBTQ rights bill that passed the Faroe Islands Law Thing. A LOT has happened since we recorded the narration track. This article will help get you up to speed.

On this podcast we have an uncomfortable conversation about the events on September 12. On that day, more than 1,400 Atlantic white-sided dolphins were killed on a beach in Eysturoy.

We'll gather facts to help you understand exactly what happened, and then talk to our friend Runi Nielsen about what it all means, and what changes might be in store in the future. Then we end with a special message for a specific set of our first-time listeners.

In the podcast, we promise links to a lot of older podcasts. So... here you go.

This is our conversation with Runi Nielsen in 2014 about his anti-whaling activism .

And here's part 2 of that conversation .

In 2009, we did our first episode on Faroese whaling. We spoke to a researcher who studies whaling in small countries, and a Faroese public health doctor who advised certain people not to eat whale meat. You can find it here .

In 2015, we documented a hunt as it happened .

We also spoke to Pete Bethune about why he changed his strategy to end Faroese whaling .

And here's part 2 of that conversation .

This week, Stella talks to Manjiao Li Ryggstein who grew up in rural China before meeting and marrying a Faroese man. It's a fun story. Also we'll get a COVID update and hear some audio from the Faroe Islands-Denmark match.

UPDATE: When we posted this podcast, the Faroe Islands was the only team to score on Denmark during this round of World Cup qualifying. About 5 minutes after we posted it, Scotland beat Denmark 2-0. So now it would be more accurate to say the Faroe Islands was the FIRST team to score against Denmark in this round of World Cup qualifying.

This week's Home and Away is a tribute to Eyðfinn Drewsen, who died last week at the age of 52. He was a DJ, producer, sound tech, voice over guy, and basically a person who could do everything at a radio station.

He was literally the voice of FM1 and Ras 2 before that. On this special episode, Stella talks about her memories of Eyðfinn and the things that made him special.

Our deepest condolences go out to Eyðfinn's family, friends, and those who loved him

This week, we check in with Jon Hestoy, he's one of the people with the unenviable job of trying to convince the International Olympic Committee to recognize the Faroe Islands. We'll talk about the history of the campaign for Faroese recognition, that the IOC has to say about the matter, and get an update on how Faroese athletes did at this year's Olympics... competing for Denmark.

We spoke to Jon back in 2016 and went more in depth on certain of these topics. If you'd like to hear that conversation, you can listen to it here .

Also, we get an update on COVID-19 in the Faroe Islands, and spend a hot afternoon by the water.

On this edition of Home and Away, Stella interviews the host of a podcast about the Faroe Islands. Can you imagine that, a whole podcast about the Faroe Islands! Well, it's true.

Stella talks to (checks notes) Matthew Workman about how he started his podcast, what it was like to visit the Faroes for the first time, and what podcast he's least proud of.

As always, we had to cut out all the music bits, but if you want to listen to the songs we had to cut, you can find a Spotify playlist here .

This week, we react to the news of the cancellation of the G! Festival and map out plans for the podcast now that we won't be able to cover the festival.

We'll also get an update on the COVID situation in the Faroes (spoiler alert: it's not good) and listen to some audio from the G! Festival 8 years ago (spoiler alert: it's really good). I'll also beg for money.

If you want to donate to our gofundme campaign, you can find the link here .

On this episode of Home and Away, Stella talks to Gunn Hernes. Gunn is the head of the Nordic House in Torshavn. We'll talk about Gunn's childhood in Norway, her journeys to Sweden, Iceland, and Denmark, and what led her to live in the Faroe Islands.

Before that, we have a short update on the COVID situation in the Faroe Islands and beg for money. If you can contribute to this year's fundraising campaign, please follow this link to our gofundme page and toss a few dollars, or kroner or Euros in our direction. Thanks to everyone who already has.

On this episode of Home & Away, Stella catches up with Cinthia Gonzalez Parada. Cinthia was a guest on Home & Away a few years ago, and Stella asks her how the last years have gone, and about her music. And we'll even get to hear some of that music!

Also, we have an update on the COVID situation in the Faroe Islands.

As a reminder, we're traveling to the Faroes to record more episodes of the podcast, and we need some help from you to keep the show revenue-neutral. If you have the ability, please visit our gofundme page and toss a little something into the tip jar. Even a little is a big help to us. And thanks to those have donated already.

With travel slowly opening up around the world, we ask the question, "Can I go to the Faroe Islands?" And when we say "I," we mean "you," but maybe also "us."

We'll talk to the head of Visit Faroe Islands about travel restrictions to the Faroes and whether it's possible for people to visit this summer.

Then we'll remember a flight from 12 years ago.

During the show, we announce our gofundme campaign for the year. If you can help us out, please visit our campaign page and donate what you can .

And thank you to everyone who has already donated.

On this new season of Home and Away, Stella talks to Johannes Midskard about his childhood in the Faroe Islands, and what's it's like renting rooms in his home to tourists.

Update: Moments after this podcast posted, the Faroese PM asked the Faroese people to cancel all social gatherings for a week. Torshavn's Culture Night has been cancelled or postponed. The Torshavn Marathon has also been postponed. For the full story, see this article from Faroese broadcaster KVF . For more information about COVID-19 in the Faroe Islands, consult the Faroe Islands coronavirus page .

On this episode, we unearth some previously unheard audio from 2013. Tollak and Matthew travel to the southernmost Faroe Island in search of the first Faroese flag, and some nightlife.

On the first part of our two part series, we stand on the deck of a boat and look at islands, then get put into "time out" in a conference room in a hotel, and then look at a piece of history in a church.

We'll also have a brief update on the COVID situation in the Faroe Islands. For the most current information please visit the Faroese government's COVID-19 website .

On this episode, Stella talks to Michael Anthony Charles Johannesen about growing up with a Faroese father and a Trinidadian mother. They talk about the surf and skate scene in the Faroes and the challenges involved with staging concerts in a small country.

Also, we've got a brief update on the COVID situation in the Faroe Islands.

If you want to know more about Stella's art work, follow her Facebook page . If you're in Torshavn, check out an exhibition of her work at the Hilton Garden Inn on April 5th.

This week, we talk to Joel Cole, he's an artist who grew up in America and now lives in the Faroe Islands. We talk about his new collection called Transplanted: Immigrant Stories. It's a series of sculptures inspired by the stories of immigrants living in the Faroe Islands. We'll talk about what inspired him to start this project and whether he considers himself an immigrant.

If you're interested in buying a poster of his work or the series of Posta stamps based on his sculptures, you can find them here .

This week, we visit the former World's Biggest Mailbox and deliver an apology that's 8 years in the making. Then we visit the very heart of Torshavn and contemplate change, time, and the meaning of monuments.

We'll also get a brief update on the pandemic and catch you up on come of our earlier podcasts.

Mentioned in this podcast: Tora Tourist , that picture in front of the mailbox .

On this podcast, we revisit our most popular, and most spooky podcast. We're back in the tunnels north of Klaksvik to listen to some sounds. Are they ghosts? Teenagers having fun? Some odd trick of acoustics? You decide. Or not, whatever, it's some spooky fun.

We'll also have an update on the Pandemic in the Faroes and details on a live show we're doing online this Halloween.

If you want to order the book, Driver Diaries, send an email to faroepodcast@gmail.com .

If you want to watch the live show, tune in on Halloween. You can watch it here .

On this episode, we talk to Tom Ordeman, the host of the Bruck Podcast, about Orkney and how people there are coping with the pandemic.

We'll also get an update on the second wave of COVID in the Faroe Islands and hear audio from a great Olavsoka party... from back in the days when you could have a great Olavsoka party and not infect a bunch of people with a deadly virus.

If you want to hear more of the Bruck podcast, here's their RSS feed .

In the podcast, Tom references a story about an Orkney brew called Skull Splitter. If you want to listen the the whole podcast he did about his quest, you can find it here .

In 2012, LGBT Faroe Islands staged an historic pride march in Torshavn. Organizers were hoping 1,000 people would show up in the Faroese capital. Instead, 5,000 showed up, and history was made.

On this podcast, we'll revisit that march, and get an update on what has happened in the 8 years since.

Also, we've got an update on the pandemic. For the latest infection numbers and news, check out the Faroese government's COVID-19 website .

We also briefly mention that Faroese music has been pulled from YouTube. What wasn't clear in the podcast was that the music has been pulled in Denmark, Greenland, and the Faroe Islands. You can read more about it here .

This week, we hear the story of the 2020 G! Festival, which was cancelled because of the pandemic, but still kind of happened. I mean, it definitely didn't happen. But it kind of did.

We'll straighten out the confusion, then hear one of my favorite moments from the 2014 G! Festival.

Also, we'll get an update on COVID-19 in the Faroes and learn about a possible diplomatic outpost for the Faroes in the United States.

On this podcast, we visit the small and isolated island of Svinoy. And keep in mind, it's even small and isolated by Faroese standards. We'll talk to the man who, along with his wife, runs the only cafe on the island. He'll tell us how he and his wife made the decision to live somewhere quiet and remote when they lived in Qatar.

We'll also get an update on COVID in the Faroe Islands, and hear some sound from a Black Lives Matter rally in Torshavn.

This week, we talk to Faroese musician and producer Sakaris about making music during a pandemic, and why he invited the public (via Facebook Live) to watch him do the messy business of creating music in the studio.

If you'd like to see one of Sakaris' live streams, or see one of his previous streams, you can find it at his Facebook page .

We'll also visit a village that is rarely noticed, but is really quite nice.

On this episode of Home and Away, Stella Talks to Sabina Poulsen, who has lived in the Faroe Islands for 13 years and runs Fjord Cottage. We'll learn about the importance of knowing Faroese, and her experience running a guesthouse.

We'll also get an update on the latest COVID-19 numbers, and learn about a new crowdfunding campaign from our good friend Elin Brimheim Heinesen.

If you'd like to help Elin record an orchestral version of her newest song, please contribute to the campaign ,

Thirteen years ago, Mirela Balicevac moved to the Faroe Islands to play professional volleyball. Today, she's still in the Faroes. Stella talks to Mirela about raising kids in the Faroe Islands, finding good food in a foreign country, and the difficulties of learning Faroese.

We'll also get an update on the COVID-19 numbers in the Faroe Islands and have a frank discussion about the difficulties of life under lockdown.

On this podcast, we talk to Elin Brimheim Heinesen about being in the Faroe Islands during lockdown. We'll also get the latest COVID-19 numbers from the Faroes, hear a song from Elin , listen to a Coronavirus-themed opera , and learn about "Remote Tourism ," where you control the actions of a tour guide over the internet using a remote control. Really.

Stay safe, everyone. For more up-to-date information about the Coronavirus in the Faroe Islands, please visit the official government website .

On this special episode, Stella Zachariassen talks to people from around the world about the current worldwide pandemic and how they're dealing with life in lockdown.

We'll also have an update on the current infection numbers in the Faroe Islands. For more current information on the virus in the Faroe Islands, visit KVF's English language site , and the Faroese government's information page .

On this week's show, part two of our conversation with Gunnar Holm Lintermann, who performs under the name Saint Kodiak. He'll talk about his return to music, and how his wife reacted when he told her he was going to quit his job. Then he'll perform his song, "Manifesto."

We'll also briefly check in on the COVID-19 situation in the Faroe Islands, including hearing some music from the national singalong last week.

Podcasts aren't really the best way to get breaking news, so for more up do date information, please check out Local.fo , KVF's information in English , and the Faroese government's site in English .

On this bonus edition of the podcast, we do just one thing: listen to the waves crash over pebbles on a beach on Sandoy. When the water passes through the pebbles on the beach, it makes a cool and soothing sound. So we looped 30 minutes of that audio into this one podcast you can listen to when you need to sleep. Or even when you don't want to sleep. We're not here to tell you what to do.

So enjoy the sounds, and if you're an ASMR-type, you're welcome.

On this second episode of Home and Away, Stella Zachariassen talks to Gina Thomsen, who moved to the Faroes from Peru ten years ago. We'll learn about how she's coping with the cold, learning Faroese, and why she was hesitant to marry a man she didn't think she could take in a fight.

This program originally aired on FM1 in the Faroe Islands. The original program had music from Peru included. That music has been edited out due to copyright issues.

On this holiday edition of the podcast, we have some fun. We sit in front of the TV with two of our best friends in the Faroes, Miranda Metheny and Uni Johannesen, and play Gekkur.

Gekkur is a cross between bingo and the lottery. But to win you have to watch this TV show and call in if you have the winning numbers and there are wheels to be spun and letters to chose and prizes to select and... there are a lot of rules.

We'll do our best to explain this Faroese phenomenon. Failing that, we'll just have fun.

In partnership with FM 1, we're pleased to present this episode of Home and Away. In this series, Stella Zachariassen talks to people who have immigrated to the Faroe Islands.

On this first episode, Stella talks to Ved Nagersheth of Mauritius about vegetables, languages, and what it's like to raise children in a different culture.

This is the first of 8 Home and Away episodes we'll be sharing in the next four months.

On this episode, a Faroese man talks to a German woman about Volleyball in the United States, we listen to our shortest interview ever, and then take a walk through a mysterious forest that's not really all that mysterious once you figure things out.

Also, the time has come to sign up for the 2020 Closed for Maintenance campaign. The response to the 2019 campaign was overwhelming, so spots will go fast. To learn more, go to the signup page at Visit Faroe Islands and help make the Faroes a better place for tourists and residents alike.

On this episode, we talk to singer/songwriter Dan Olsen about his journey from the Faroes to Australia, and then London. We'll also hear a sample of Dan's first single from his most recent EP. If you'd like to hear the full track of "Still Be Gone," you can listen here .

Then we go back to the "haunted tunnels" north of Klaksvik.

Also, at the end of the show, I say that this is Episode 314 of the podcast. That's not true, it's actually Episode 315. The management regrets the error.

This week, we catch up with Darius Lewis, he's the American footballer (we Americans would call him a soccer player) who was signed by KI Klaksvik this year. We spoke to him in January, right before he left for the Faroe Islands. Now that he's had a few months of living in the country and playing for KI, we thought we'd check in and see how life up north is treating this native of Florida.

Then we stand under the 6th traffic light in the Faroes.

If you want to see the news story about Darius, you can find it here .

At long last, it's the podcast of our live show at the G! Festival. On this special show, we talk to filmmaker Andreas Hogenni about his film "No Ill Will" and social media. Then we hear music from Elin Brimheim Heinesen, and we end by contemplating the temporary nature of joy.

Special thanks to the G! Festival, Sissal Kampmann, and Suni Joensen for helping make this wonderful night a reality.

If you'd like to see a photo album from the show, you can find it here .

During the show, we make reference to a series of images projected on a screen. You can view those images here .

No, this isn't our live show, we're working on getting that to you soon. Instead, we've got audio and interviews from a recent football (soccer) match in the Faroe Islands. HB Torshavn is currently in the second qualifying round of the Europa League, which is a competition where teams from across Europe compete. They played Linfield FC from Northern Ireland last week, and we've got a match report.

HB lost the return leg of the match 0-1 and have been eliminated from the Europa League. KI Klaksvik also lost Thursay 1-0 and are also out of the Europa League. Solid effort from both sides, however.

This week, we listen to a new show from our friend Tom Ordeman. His show, The Bruck Podcast takes its inspiration from a Radio Orkney program, but touches on all manner of subjects.

This one talks about Ordeman's long relationship with Orkney, and seeing as this is a show fueled by a long infatuation with an obscure set of small islands in the North Atlantic, it seems like something listeners of the Faroe Islands Podcast might dig.

If you want to hear more, you can go to their web page , or subscribe to their RSS feed here .

Also, one last plug for our gofund me campaign. We are very close to making our goal, but we're not quite there yet. If you can help us get over the finish line, please visit our campaign page and make a donation.

Finally, if you're going to be in the Faroes on July 11th, 2019, please catch our live show, which will feature music, interviews, and free stuff. Details here .

On this bonus podcast, we update you on the status of our fundraising, congratulate the Faroese National Team, and then hear some new music from Saint Kodiak.

Saint Kodiak won a singing competition in 2003 and recorded an album for Universal Music. He quit the music business after that, but after a hike in the mountains, he knew he had to return to music.

He's released a new album and we're sharing one track on this podcast. If you'd like to hear more, you can find him on Spotify . You can also learn more on his website , instagram , and Facebook pages.

Also, if you haven't donated to our gofundme campaign and would like to, you can find the campaign here . And thanks to everyone who has donated already.

On this episode, we march in a parade, listen to music from KATA and Teitur and Kanska, take in the new concessions, and marvel at how clean the beach is. Then we go to a shack and sing until the early morning hours.

We also unveil out newest fundraising campaign. We're headed back to the Faroes to record more episodes of the podcast and we need a little help from you. If you like the show and have the ability to help, please head over to our gofundme page and show us some love.

On this episode, we take in the sounds of Elin Brimheim Heinesen's 60th birthday party. We'll hear songs sung by Elin, her daughter Helena, and everybody in the crowd. We'll also hear some chain dancing and offer a gigantic "takk" to a woman who was instrumental in getting this podcast off the ground in the early days.

If you'd like to purchase Elin's latest album, you can find at the Tutl store , and on iTunes .

To see a photo album of that wonderful night, here's a great one on Facebook .