American gospel quartet Ernie Haase and Signature Sound were back at Clickimin on Wednesday night for their second visit bringing southern gospel music to the isles.
Click here for full story...With 48 hours to go, Scalloway is gearing up for the official opening of its museum by the Prime Minister of Norway, Jens Stoltenberg. Finishing touches are being made to the museum and preparations for a community parade and party are well underway.
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Shetland Arts has agreed a partnership with leading promoter DF Concerts & Events in the run-up to the opening of Mareel.
Click here for full story...Last Thursday night saw a bit of a departure for Shetland Folk Festival: some extra cash from Creative Scotland enabled the committee to bring hotly-tipped Scottish indie/folk outfit Admiral Fallow north to grace the Clickimin stage.
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The tutors at the Fiddle Frenzy event in August will include sisters Jenna and Bethany Reid, alongside Angela Fraser, Pauleen Wiseman, Lois Nicol, Cathy Geldard, Helen Whitham and Ross Couper.
Click here for full story...Shetland will be the backdrop to a small-screen murder mystery based on the work of award-winning crime writer Ann Cleeves.
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Shetland Country Music Club welcomes singer and accordionist Sean Wilson back to the isles for a short tour later this month.
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A peerie flurry of snow never put a Shetland show off, did it? It certainly did nothing to dampen the enthusiasm on night two of the Shetland Folk Festival 2012 as far as I could see.
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The Shetland Folk Festival 2012 promises to be another hum dinger, judging at least by the concert at Bigton Hall last night.
Eclectic certainly sums it up. Fiddles with every act, repetition you might think – but wow could the musicians on show do justice to a range of different styles and interpretations from traditional Shetland to Scottish, Irish, country and a self-styled Canadian funk. So, in short, fiddles good.
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