"This Festival requires a Government Health Warning - Nobody sleeps" issued by decree by Dick Gaughan, 1981
The UK's most northerly folk festival is regarded as a prestigious event for performers, locals and visitors alike therby acknowledging the quality of this event.
The Festival prides itself in reaching out to even the most far flung areas of Shetland. Concerts are organised throughout the isles, consisting of some of the best International, British and Shetland music that the world has to offer. In fact, visiting artistes are regularly dumbfounded by the quantity and quality of local musicians that our remote isles have to offer.
There is a Festival Club in Shetland's capital, Lerwick, where you'll find formal and informal concerts, workshops, a real ale bar and fantastic "sessions" that continue into the wee hours of the morning. Yes it's true - you do have to sleep quickly to witness the Full Festival Experience!
Clickimin Broch, a “must visit” when in Lerwick, is sited on a promontory projecting into the fresh water Loch of Clickimin. It is an outstanding example of a broch, a sophisticated type of stone-built round house found only in Scotland. Clickimin Broch has...
You might be lucky enough to gain exclusive access to Scalloway Castle by retrieving the keys from Scalloway Museum or the local hotel. You might like to imagine yourself as the Earl of Orkney and Shetland but for the fact that the position was held by the Stewart...
Broch of Mousa (or Mousa Broch) is an exceptionally well preserved example of an Iron Age broch or round tower in not just Shetland or Scotland but Europe. It is built of dry stone with no mortar. At 13.3m high and accessible via a single entrance at ground level, a...