Multiple Grammy winner Steve Earle, the outspoken singer-song­writer responsible for a host of classic Americana songs including Copperhead Road, Guitar Town and Galway Girl, will be stopping off in Lerwick next Thursday for a re-arranged show at Clickimin.

Children’s author Sharon Tregenza has withdrawn from the Wordplay book festival this weekend due to a family bereavement.

An American gospel quartet is to play a show in Shetland early next year as part of their European tour.

Norman and the Folding Deckchairs have been around for some time, popping up at all manner of Shetland festivals and jazz gigs and playing their particular melodic brand of mainstream to modern jazz.

The illustrated talk by Howard Towll on Sunday 29th August, to accompany his exhibition currently showing at Da Gadderie in the Shetland Museum, has unfortunately been cancelled due to illness.

Fiddle Frenzy participant Angus Downing described his time in Shetland at Fiddle Frenzy as “fantastic”.

Excavations at Old Scatness, Shetland Volume 1: The Pictish Village and Viking Settlement, Stephen J Dockrill, Julie M Bond, Val E Turner, Louise D Brown, Daniel J Bashford, Julia E Cus­sans and Rebecca A Nicholson, Shetland Heritage Publications.

Shetland musician Reuben Quinn is to play a series of free gigs and workshops which will showcase some of Scotland’s best new songwriting talent and feature a songwriter who has helped pen hits for Madonna, among others.

Anyone with an interest in some of the true greats within the illustrious pantheon of American songwriting is in for a treat early next month as prominent scholars arrive in the isles to give talks on Bob Dylan, Woody Guthrie and Blind Willie McTell as part of the 2010 Wordplay festival.

A bronze cannon from an Armada ship which wrecked off Fair Isle in the aftermath of the Spaniards’ ill-fated attack on England in 1588 will be on display in the Shetland Museum for the first time from Monday.

A former Lerwick optician is suing his estranged wife and erstwhile business partner for more than £800,000, claiming that her actions after they went their separate ways six years ago effectively left him out of work.

New SIC chief executive Alistair Buchan came face to face with all councillors this week for the first time since taking up the post for what he described as “very positive” initial discussions about how to react to major criticisms in the Accounts Commission’s recent report on the local authority.

Multiple Grammy winner Steve Earle, the outspoken singer-song­writer responsible for a host of classic Americana songs including Copperhead Road, Guitar Town and Galway Girl, will be stopping off in Lerwick next Thursday for a re-arranged show at Clickimin.