Shetland Lone Star, a new DVD on the late Burra Isle fisherman and musician Thomas Fraser, is released this week.

It features the widely acclaimed 30-minute documentary on Fraser which was shown on BBC Scotland in December last year.

The film, produced by Hopscotch Films in conjunction with the BBC, was shot entirely in Shetland…

Shetland Country Music Club continues this month with a visiting band from Caithness by the name of Slange Ava. They have been together for about 18 months and play throughout the Caithness and Highlands areas.

The band member who is best known to the Shetland audience is Keith Mcleod, who features on lead guitar, mandolin…

THE documentary on Shetland musician Thomas Fraser is to be shown at the Shetland Museum and Archives on Saturday 13th and Sunday 14th of December in advance of its transmission to the rest of the country.

Shetland Lone Star is not scheduled to by shown by BBC2 until 19th December but as the filmmakers had…

SHETLAND Country Music Club is rounding off 2008 with a visit from Arizona, a band from Aberdeenshire.

The band members all come from the Inverurie, Mintlaw and Oldmeldrum area. They are a five piece band who have been playing together for over 10 years, and cover a wide range of material. Their country influences are…

Meridian to Here by May, Mackie & Rhonda. CD produced by Phillip Anderson at Storm Sound Studios Kirkwall on the NEL music label at £12.99

THIS new 12-track release from May, Mackie and Rhonda is a fine mix of country and folk music, well picked songs with contemporary covers, older country, folk songs and self-penned…

THREE nights of wonderful harmony from both local and visiting artistes – that is probably how best to describe the Thomas Fraser Memorial Festival.

As I arrived at the Hamnavoe Hall on Saturday evening the first on stage, May, Mackie & Rhonda, were setting the scene for what was to follow.

Mackie Sutherland was proving…

OVER 20 years ago I found myself living in Hamnavoe, Burra Isle. My brother had been with the Burra boats and I had my first stint at the fishing aboard the Opportune.

A regular visitor to the house, more than often full of the “joys of life”, always insisted on either of the two Thomas…

I AM delighted to see this month bring the fourth release from the Thomas Fraser collection, That Far Away Land.

Thomas Fraser was born in Burra in 1927. He quickly realised that he had a passion for music and learned to play the fiddle, guitar, piano, man­dolin and banjo. Jimmie Rod­gers being his idol, Thomas…

SHETLAND Country Music Club continues in Irish mode this month, welcoming the duo of Ally Herron and Marion Curry.

Based in Enniskillen, they are emerging as two of the popular names on the cabaret circuit in Ireland and beyond.

Ally and Marion first met while singing in their early teens in a local choir before…

PLANS are well under way for the seventh annual Thomas Fraser Memorial Festival.

The event is from Thursday 6th to Saturday 8th November in Burra Public Hall and includes the launch of a fourth Thomas Fraser CD, That Far Away Land.

The festival has its origins in a single concert in Hamnavoe in 2002 to…