Why do you go there? My mum and dad still live there in my childhood home. It's a beautiful, small collection of houses towards the south mainland of Shetland. Over the years, I've returned home many ...

The Shetland Islands, a cluster of rocks in the North Sea, is an unusual place. Wealthy from offshore oil, Shetlanders are yet wedded to ancient traditions. And they play the fiddle like no one else.

The 34th Shetland Accordion and Fiddle Festival is being held from Thursday 5th – Sunday 8th October 2023. Approximately 60 invited musicians from outwith Shetland, including Full Scottish Dance Bands ...

It’s 550 years since the islands became part of Scotland, and the archipelago is still not for the faint-hearted. But it has inspired its own diverse music, where fiddles and accordions meet the ...

BREWER — A Shetland fiddle music workshop with Kevin Henderson (Boys of the Lough, Fiddlers Bid, Session A9 and Nordic Fiddlers Bloc): will be from 1-2:30 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 9 at the Next ...

THE Fiddle Tree’s first concert of 2011 is on Friday, February 18, when top Shetland fiddlers Jenna and Bethany Reid will present their acclaimed musical interpretation of one of World War Two’s most ...

HOW best to commence a Shetland/Finnish fiddle-band double bill? 'Let's have a Bulgarian tune,' was Chris Stout's answer, as he led off the former troupe, Fiddlers' Bid, opening a show which saw both ...

SHAPIRO: As you might guess from the music, we are not on a tropical island with palm trees swaying. We are on a barren cluster of rocks in the middle of the North Sea - the Shetland Islands, far ...