Arriving at Hillswick on Friday evening the popularity of the forthcoming concert was obvious. At just after 7pm, with the doors still closed, at least 50 people were queued outside and cars parked all along the main road.
Click here for full story...“You’re in for a treat.” That was the prediction from the bar staff at the Legion in Lerwick who’d heard the sound check ahead of last night’s concert.
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The whale which was discovered in Yell.
A new film which explores the challenges faced by owners of fishing vessels will be shown in Shetland this month.
Click here for full story...Thursday night’s opener at Lerwick’s Legion contained highlights aplenty during a five-act, four-hour concert where the standard of musicianship seldom fell below outstanding.
Click here for full story...Hamnavoe Hall filled to the brim last night as crowds gathered to hear what the 33rd folk festival had to offer.
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Cedric Watson.
The line-up last night at Cunningsburgh on the opening night of the 33rd Shetland Folk Festival promised much. And it promptly delivered on a committee promise to festival stalwart, the late Michael Coutts, that “we’ll make sure that this festival is one of the best yet”.
Click here for full story...Hjaltland Housing Association has launched a new website produced by Lerwick-based NB Communications.
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Cuts of 25 per cent are to be made from the council’s youth services this year and junior youth clubs and part-time youth workers seem likely to be those who will lose out.
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Skerryvore preparing to open the 33rd folk festival at Islesburgh this afternoon.
Scottish singer and broadcaster Mary Ann Kennedy today described the Shetland Folk Festival as “one of the jewels of the musical world, not just the folk world.”
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