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A Shetland Music Special

Anna Massie with the very best of folk and roots music from Scotland and beyond.

It鈥檚 all about Shetland this week ahead of the 43rd Shetland Folk Festival. Anna chats to banjo player and festival organiser Lewie Peterson about what makes the music of Shetland so unique.

Plus musician and composer Astrid Williamson tells Anna about her latest album, Shetland Suite, which is powerfully symbolic of family, and time and place.

12 days left to listen

1 hour, 55 minutes

Last on

Thu 24 Apr 2025 20:00

Music Played

  • Fiddlers' Bid

    Da White Wife

    • Naked and Bare.
    • CDTRAX277.
  • The Maes

    Make a Baby

    • Make a Baby.
    • The Maes.
  • Aly Bain & Phil Cunningham

    Quendale Bay

    • The Pearl.
    • WHIRLIECD3.
  • Vair

    Atween da Wadders

    • A Place in Time.
  • Amy Laurenson

    Four Filskettes

    • Strands.
    • Amy Laurenson.
  • Margo Cilker

    Tehachapi

    • Tehachapi.
    • Loose.
  • Willie Johnson

    St Louis Blues

    • Willie鈥檚 World.
    • CDTRAX309.
  • Hom Bru

    Rowin Foula Doon

    • Rowin Foula Doon.
    • HB104CD.
  • Mec Lir

    Chase The Ace: Pop The Dolphin / Up The Curtains / Firebird

    • Livewire.
    • BMANN004.
  • Maggie Adamson and Brian Nicholson

    Tippin' the Scales/ Dinky's Reel/ A Cup of Tea

    • Tammy Norrie.
    • MB010.
  • Mallachy Tallack

    Lonely Mountain

    • That Beautiful Atlantic Waltz.
    • self-release.
  • String Sisters

    Hjaltland

    • Between Wind and Water.
    • Sisters 118.
  • Astrid Williamson

    Unst Boat Song

    • Shetland Suite.
  • Inge Thomson

    Norseman鈥檚 Bride

    • Shipwrecks and Static.
  • Astrid Williamson

    Da Selkie Wife Song

    • Shetland Suite.
  • Huw Parsons

    Shetland - The First Part Of The Big Freeze

    • The Big Freeze.
  • Su-a-Lee and Jenna Reid

    Mareel

    • Dialogues.
    • SCR001CD.
  • Astro Bloc

    Outbreak

    • Outbreak.
    • Astro Bloc Records.

Broadcast

  • Thu 24 Apr 2025 20:00