There was a good turnout at the Royal British Legion on Friday at the launch gig for Malachy Tallack’s new album, From the Thorn.

Talented Shetland singer Jillian Isbister will shortly be taking part in a musical extravaganza in Inverness prior to starting a major US tour.

Given that Shetland is hailed as a place that spawns almost more musi­cians than salmon, it is nevertheless probably fair to say that singer/songwriters still tend to be a bit of a rare species in the isles, most notably those of the male variety.

Sure, a mere handful of very worthy individuals successfully swim against…

Channerwick-based singer-songwriter Malachy Tallack will take to the stage at the British Legion in Lerwick next Friday evening as part of a six-piece band for the official launch of his third solo record, From the Thorn.

The 11-track album – his first since 2005’s Edges and Spaces – was recorded over the past year and…

The fourth album from Shetland singer-songwriter Astrid Williamson is launched next month.

Released on One Little Indian Records, Here Come the Vikings is the latest offering from Astrid, who had brief fame with the band Goya Dress in the 90s before releasing solo albums Boy For You, Astrid Williamson and Day of the Lone Wolf.…

Radio 3’s Between the Ears heads to Fair Isle tomorrow to make a prog­ramme with resident Lise Sinclair about a song written two years ago.

A poet, composer and musician steeped in her home landscape and traditions, Lise wrote the song with composer and producer Damian Montagu from London on the first leg of his…

By LOUISE THOMASON

Not many young people clock up 11,500 miles on a trip abroad. Neither do they get to star in a music programme broadcast across America.

Both of these were realities for young Shetland singer Jillian Isbister, who is recently back from her second trip to the United States, this time to…

By ROSALIND GRIFFITHS

A sing-along CD of Shetland dialect songs has been launched by songs­tress Maria Barclay Millar.

Maria, from Sandwick, has spent the last year and a half working as a singing instructor in three primary schools and felt that a resource was needed for her work.

Her new CD, Evergreen, some­thing fresh…

A FEMALE singer-songwriter from Ollaberry recently released her debut solo album, featuring 10 all-acoustic tracks.

Antonia Sidgwick, 21, who is in the final year of a degree in sports science and psychology at the University of Edinburgh, recorded Baliamo – which was mixed and mastered by Andrew Clubb – this summer at Weathersta Studios in…

By ROSALIND GRIFFITHS

NEXT year will be busy for singer Jillian Isbister. The 20-year-old, who was chosen from hundreds of hopefuls to appear in a US television series on Scottish music, is now preparing to go to America.

Her first ever trip abroad will come in mid-January when she flies out to Florida. There…