popular more than 20 years after his death in 1978. The annual Shetland Folk Festival began in 1981 and is hosted on the first weekend of May. Walter...
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Festival The Green Man Festival Inter Varsity Folk Dance Festival Middlewich Folk and Boat Festival Shetland Folk Festival Shrewsbury Folk Festival Sidmouth...
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Shetland is a Scottish crime drama television series produced by ITV Studios for BBC Scotland. First broadcast on BBC One on 10 March 2013, it is originally...
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group has performed at festivals all over the world, including at the Shetland Folk Festival in Shetland, UK, the Orkney Folk Festival in Orkney, UK, and...
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Shetland Fiddlers' Society is a group of fiddlers from Shetland that play regularly for Shetland Folk Dance and perform at events such as Shetland's Folk...
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XIV Viljandi Folk Music Festival July 20–23, 2006. Headlined by Altan (Ireland), Filska (Shetland islands), Evgenij Genev & Balkan Folk Acoustic (Bulgaria)...
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Joan Armatrading (category English folk guitarists)
partnership with artist Maggie Butler in the Shetland Islands in 2011, the day after the Shetland Folk Festival, but does not talk publicly about being gay...
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Astrid Williamson (category People from Shetland)
and songwriter. Growing up in Shetland, she enjoyed playing the piano from an early age and The Shetland Folk Festival provided early experience both...
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Siobhan Miller (category Scottish folk singers)
Not Forgotten (2020) Bloom (2022) "38th Festival Archive | 3rd May - 6th May, 2018". Shetland Folk Festival. Retrieved 30 May 2020. "A Christmas Celtic...
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Crooked Still (category American folk musical groups)
style. The string band's style has been described as progressive bluegrass, folk-country, and Americana. O'Donovan states that the band is playing its "own...
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Papa Stour Sword Dance (redirect from Shetland Sword Dance)
in Shetland" (PDF). folkplay.info. Scott, Sir Walter (1852). Waverly Novels. Boston: S.H Parker and B.B Mussey. pp. 268–271. "Shetland Folk Festival |...
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Bodega (Scottish band) (category Shetland music)
performed at the festival Celtic Connections for two years in a row, and also played at large festivals such as The Shetland Folk Festival and the HebCelt...
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Peerie Willie Johnson (category People from Yell, Shetland)
musician in the Shetland folk scene. Since 2005 there has been a "Peerie" Willie Guitar Festival" each year on the islands. "Peerie" is a Shetland dialect word...
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Tom Anderson (fiddler) (category Shetland fiddlers)
November 1991. Retrieved 11 June 2016. "Shetland Fiddlers Society". Shetland Folk Festival. Shetland Folk Festivals. 1–4 May 2014. Retrieved 26 May 2016...
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Kinnaris Quintet (category Scottish folk music groups)
"Kinnaris Quintet". Shetland Folk Festival. Retrieved 29 November 2020. "Winners of the MG ALBA Scots Trad Music Awards 2019". Folk Radio UK. 8 December...
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Aly Bain (category Shetland fiddlers)
spread from Scotland and Ireland to America), The Shetland Sessions (recorded at the Shetland folk festival in 1991), Aly Meets The Cajuns, and six series...
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Jimmie Macgregor (category Scottish folk singers)
Archived from the original on 12 March 2003. Retrieved 19 September 2007. Jimmie Macgregor biography, Shetland Folk Festival. archive of official website...
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in festivals, for example: Montreal Tall Ships Races (Canada), Pittsburgh Irish Festival (USA), Shetland Folk Festival (Shetland), Ollin Kan Festival (Mexico...
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Festival, Buxton, Derbyshire Cambridge Folk Festival CarFest Cary Comes Home Festival Castlemorton Common Festival Cheltenham: Cheltenham Festivals:...
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Foula (redirect from Shetland Islands/Foula)
Foula (/ˈfuːlə/), located in the Shetland archipelago of Scotland, is one of the United Kingdom's most remote permanently inhabited islands. Owned since...
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Up Helly Aa (category Festivals in Scotland)
fire festival held annually from January to March in various communities in Shetland, Scotland, to mark the end of the Yule season. Each festival involves...
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Scots Trad Music Awards (category Folk music awards)
MacDonald Traditional Music Enabler of the Year: Mhari McLeman of Shetland Folk Festival Photographer of the Year: Euan Robertson Photography Venue Technician...
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The Boys of the Lough (category Shetland music)
collaborators were Tommy Gunn and Robin Morton. The two halves met at Falkirk folk festival in Scotland, and formed Boys of the Lough. In 1973, Gaughan left to...
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Catriona MacDonald (category People from Shetland)
(born 1969 or 1970) is a fiddler, composer, researcher, and lecturer from Shetland, located some 320 km (200 miles) north of the Scottish mainland. She is...
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Sullom (category Villages in Mainland, Shetland)
gives its name. Sullom hall has been used as a venue during the Shetland Folk Festival. Scatsta Airfield, on the opposite shore of the Voe, and which grew...
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Niamh Ní Charra (category Irish women folk musicians)
"Carlos Nuñez "Alborada do Brasil". Folk World. Living Tradition CD review of NIAMH NÍ CHARRA Happy Out Shetland Folk Festival Biography Cast Members · Riverdance...
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Fiddlers' Bid (category Shetland music)
at some of the largest folk festivals in the world including the Smithsonian Folklife Festival, Cambridge Folk Festival, Festival Interceltique de Lorient...
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Northern Isles (redirect from Orkney & Shetland)
which is a vibrant part of local culture today. Notable exponents of Shetland folk music include Aly Bain and the late Tom Anderson and Peerie Willie Johnson...
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North Isles of Shetland, Scotland. In the 2011 census it had a usually resident population of 966. It is the second largest island in Shetland after the Mainland...
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International Folk Festival, Shetland Folk Festival, Vancouver Folk Festival, The Stephen Leacock Humour Festival (Canada), Cheltenham Literature Festival (England)...
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