The traditional post-Lerwick Up-Helly-A’ holiday could be moved to Friday, 3rd June to allow council workers to celebrate the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee next year.
READ FULL STORYIt is a perfect night for a procession … but unfortunately the postponement of the 2021 Lerwick Up-Helly-A’ means guizers will have to wait a…
READ FULL STORYA handmade galley is set to be burned tonight – but not in the King Harald Street play park. The smaller replica has been built…
READ FULL STORYThree Up-Helly-A’ songs were played on a keyboard in the Lerwick Town Hall today to mark what should have been the 2021 festival. At 11.45am,…
READ FULL STORYThe Shetland Times is going to be marking the day that would have been Lerwick Up-Helly-A’ 2021 by posting a series of videos from previous…
READ FULL STORYThere will be no Up-Helly-A’ festivities on the last Tuesday of January – but the Lerwick Town Hall will pay its own tribute to the…
READ FULL STORY2020 Lerwick Guizer Jarl Liam Summers has said that the use of blackface will not be tolerated in the Lerwick festival.
READ FULL STORYJunior jarl Marley Teale has sent his galley, Helenä, to Valhalla at the end of this year’s junior procession. On a dry but cold night,…
READ FULL STORYDroves of spectators lined the road, from the British Legion all the way to the Market Cross, for an early opportunity to see the Lerwick…
READ FULL STORYOnce the evening procession had been completed and the galley sent up in flames, the squads took to the halls to perform their carefully choreographed
READ FULL STORYThe Lerwick Up-Helly-A’ needs to move with the times and embrace gender equality – that was the general feeling of last night’s Althing debate.
READ FULL STORYThe Lerwick Up-Helly-A’ got a few leagues closer with last night’s mass meeting of guizers at the town’s Garrison Theatre.
READ FULL STORYIf you didn’t know there was something special going on in Lerwick on Tuesday morning the traffic-stopping crowds would have alerted you. People gathered outside…
READ FULL STORY“The best day of my life.” That was how junior Jarl Kristoffer Thomason described his day of glory on Tuesday, a day of leading his…
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