A NEW fiddle summer school is set to take place next year offering tuition and concerts. Shetland Fiddle Week, created by local musicians Jenna Reid and Lynda Anderson, will be held between 5 and 9 August. It comes as Shetland Arts has no plans to hold the Folk Frenzy event in.
BBC Radio Shetland is ready to host its annual Children in Need fundraising appeal on Friday night. Almost 80 items have been donated for the popular auction. Ian Smith of Troswick started making model wooden buses for the appeal back in 1985 when he worked as a lighthouse.
A SHETLAND fiddler says he had a “great but nerve-wracking experience” featuring in the semi-finals of the BBC Young Traditional Musician of the Year competition. Whilst George Spence did not make it to the finals, the 20-year-old said he is pleased to have made it as far as.
YOUNGSTERS across Shetland are gearing up for the 41st Shetland Young Fiddler of the Year competition in Mareel next weekend. Junior fiddlers (P6 and under) will compete on the Friday (21 April) morning and intermediate fiddlers (P7-S1) compete in the afternoon on the same day..