- Orkney Folk Festival happens over the last weekend in May and brings together Orkney musicians and musicians from around the world, for a four day festival, based mainly in Stromness, but with concerts throughout Orkney.
- The Wrigley Sister’s Centre of Music offer lessons, classes, hold concerts and have traditional music sessions every Saturday evening.
- St Magnus Festival happens in June and puts on a wide variety of concerts and events
- Orkney Blues festival happens in September, in Stromness
- Sunday evening traditional folk music sessions happen in the Bothy Bar of the Ayre Hotel in Kirkwall
- The Auld Motor Hoose, Fusion & Firelounge, Skippers Bar in Kirkwall and The Ferry Inn in Stromness often have live music, of all varieties.