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Shetland Folk Festival 2008

A FEW YEARS ago, before she went solo, Karine Polwart came to the Shetland Folk Festival as lead singer with Malinky, an experience that directly inspired her song ‘Follow the Heron Home’, whose chorus – “By night and day, we’ll sport and we’ll play/And delight as the dawn dances over the bay” – brilliantly encapsulates the event’s uniquely hedonistic character.

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