If anyone could claim to be the “godfather” of Scottish folk music it is surely Jimmy McGregor. Now “over 80″ this affable doyen of broadcasting and music was to be seen appearing in front of a “McGregor’s Gathering” of folk at the Shetland Hotel, for one night only during the festival proceedings.
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The 32nd Shetland Folk Festival kicked off in style at lunchtime with its trademark opening concert in Room 16 at Islesburgh.
Click here for full story...Shetland’s Young Fiddler of 2012 is 14-year-old Laura Smith from Cunningsburgh, with Fraser Tait of Sandwick runner-up and Sophie Moar from Cunningsburgh and Callum Watt from Walls in joint third place.
Click here for full story...Author and Shetland Times columnist Donald Murray has been awarded the prestigious Robert Louis Stevenson Fellowship.
Click here for full story...Shetland Folk Festival Society has selected five young isles musicians for a project which will form part of the 32nd annual event, which kicks off in two weeks.
Click here for full story...The Holy Ghosts is Jack Sandison’s latest musical venture, alongside four other well-known faces of the Edinburgh music scene.
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Shetland musician and composer Chris Stout has been nominated for a new album of the year award being billed as “Scotland’s equivalent to the Mercury Music Prize”.
Click here for full story...A group of Shetland pupils have made it to the final of a national film making contest and are now appealing to the public to show their support by voting for the film to win the competition.
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A scene from Lord of the Flies.
Strong performances and visually stunning moments in Shetland Youth Theatre’s Lord of the Flies made for a tense production that kept the audience involved from the gentle start to a dramatic finish.
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The Boondock Hippy, with Steven Keenlyside third from left.
An ex-pat Shetland singer and guitarist has mined his memories of growing up in the islands for a new musical project, under the moniker The Boondock Hippy, and has pledged the proceeds from the first 50 copies sold to cancer charity CLAN.
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