Music sessions start up again
SHETLAND Arts has announced the recommencement of the Family Traditional Music Sessions. The sessions, held in different venues, are open to people of all ages…
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Home from home at Cape Breton festival
IT IS said that Nova Scotia is, in many ways, even more Scottish than Scotland. The wave of Scottish blood that first migrated (largely unwillingly)…
READ FULL STORYHomecoming concerts
SHETLAND fiddle star Catriona Macdonald is to make a trip home to play two concerts next week as part of her “Over the Moon” Scottish…
READ FULL STORYConcerts in Japan
FIDDLERS’ Bid are to head out to Japan early next month for their second tour of the country. The band is due to play three…
READ FULL STORYCape Breton calls for Bryan and Violet
FEW, if any, would dispute that Bryan Gear is one of Shetland’s finest and most gifted fiddlers. Fewer still would deny that pianist Violet Tulloch…
READ FULL STORYFrenzy goers thrilled by range of fiddles and bands on offer
By ROSALIND GRIFFITHS A PACKED Garrison Theatre reverberated to a spirited session of music and story-telling last Thursday during the fourth night of the Fiddle…
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By MIRIAM BRETT AFTER five days of hard work, Saturday saw the last of the evening concerts for Fiddle Frenzy 2008. Headlining at the Garrison…
READ FULL STORYJenna Reid kicks off fiddle frenzy in style on hot night at Garrison
By NEIL RIDDELL FIDDLE Frenzy ’08 kicked off in style at the Garrison Theatre on Tuesday evening with a fine performance from Quarff lass Jenna…
READ FULL STORYJoy for fiddle fans as fifth frenzy arrives
By NEIL RIDDELL TRADITIONAL music fans will be out in force again next week as the fifth Fiddle Frenzy festival kicks off, with the week-long…
READ FULL STORYBodega’s second album hits absolutely all the right notes
BY Miriam Brett Bodega first made their name when they won the prestigious BBC2 Young Folk Musicians of the Year in 2006. Since then, the…
READ FULL STORYPoignant return for Catriona with Tom’s special fiddle
By Melissa Duncan SHETLAND fiddler Catriona MacDonald is set to play a concert at the opening of the first Hardanger fiddle museum in Bø, Norway,…
READ FULL STORYBack home, Chris raises the roof
Chris Stout’s Run North Tour, Fair Isle Hall, Friday, 27th June. BY Kathy Coull WHEN Chris Stout plays on Fair Isle soil there is an…
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