Forty fiddlers invited to military tattoo
A group of 40 fiddlers from Shetland have been invited to perform at this year’s Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo.
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Faulkner wows capacity crowd at Mareel
The Friday evening queue stretched the whole way across the front of the venue and half way round the side, braving the icy force nine
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Reliving Up-Helly-A’ moments
After 15 years of waiting, Lerwick Guizer Jarl Ivor Cluness has experienced a week he will never forget.
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Writer’s award for Tallack
Writer, editor and singer-songwriter Malachy Tallack has become one of 11 to receive the 2014 New Writers Award by the Scottish Book Trust.
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Metal festival returns
Britain’s most northerly metal festival returns to the isles this summer – with two days of roaring rock at the Lerwick Royal British Legion.
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Coutts’ old photos in the frame
Another exhibition of photographs from the 1960s by renowned photographer Dennis Coutts will be launched in the Weisdale Mill on Saturday.
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Fantastic feeling for Scalloway Jarl Kenny
It promised to be a grand day for the Scalloway fire festival, if the morning’s crisp but clear conditions were anything to go by.
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AB/CD go out in style
Heavy guitar riffs had the audience in a frenzy as AB/CD whipped up an evening of roaring rock and roll.
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Review: Springsteen Sessions give it their all
Guitar-touting rock and roll was just the tonic for Springsteen fans at Mareel on Saturday.
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Yacht into tropics as epic voyage continues
Elsi Arrub and her intrepid skipper Andrew Halcrow have crossed the tropic of Cancer and were about 20 degrees north, mid-way between the Canaries and…
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Scots stars Dickson and Noakes to appear at Mareel next June
Veteran Scottish singers Barbara Dickson and Rab Noakes will appear at Mareel in June next year at a concert presented by Shetland Arts.
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Hall of fame awaits fiddle great Hunter
The late Willie Hunter will be inducted into the Scottish Traditional Music Hall of Fame at a ceremony in Aberdeen.
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Review: Hidden gems inspire Back From Beyond show
From rousing fiddles to crunchy guitars, heartfelt harmonies to clever poetry, Back from Beyond was an eclectic celebration of Shetland’s charms. Visitors to Mareel on…
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Local scenes to take centre stage in Yule exhibition
The Yule Exhibition in Da Gadderie at Shetland Museum will feature artists Anne Bain and Mike Finnie.
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