The famous, and highly successful, Shetland Folk Festival is held in early May and attracts music lovers from all over the world. Invites to perform at this festival are highly prized by all performers. The festival, first held in 1981, features a heady mixture of talented local performers and visiting musicians and artistes from many parts of the world. Concerts and dances are held throughout Shetland and these are supplemented by workshops and informal music sessions at the festival club in Lerwick.
The Shetland Isles are the most northerly outpost of the United Kingdom lying north-north-east of Scotland, east-south-east of Faeroe, and west of Norway.
They are made up of more than 100 low-lying and almost treeless islands and skerries (only 15 of which are continuously inhabited) clustered together equidistantly between the three countries. Not surprising, the average Shetlander maintains that he or she is no more Scottish than Scandinavian. Almost 24,000 people live in the islands, greatly outnumbered by about 30,000 gannets, 140,000 guillemots, 250,000 puffins, 300,000 fulmars and, at least, 330,000 sheep.
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2008: 1st - 4th May 2008. Guests include Le Vent du Nord, Breabach, Peatbog Faeries, Kevin Henderson & Brendan Begley, The Chair, Henrik Jansberg Band and many more..
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