Tern

This year's resident Festival Club band, are Glasgow based Scandi/Scottish Folk Band Tern who won the Danny Kyle Open Stage at Celtic Connections in February 2023.

Featuring Shetland's very own Amy Laurenson, the pianist who on BBC Radio Scotland's Young Traditional Musician of the Year in 2023, Tern also comprises guitarist Miguel Girão from Portugal, Kristina Leesik from Sweden on Fiddle and Lea Søndergaard Larsen from Denmark on Bodhran. For their trip to Shetland they will be joined by Séamus Ó Baoighill who hails from The Isle of Skye where he has spent most of his youth honing his skills on both the Fiddle and Bagpipes. Séamus is traveling to Shetland instead of permanent Tern member Rose Logan, who unfortunately couldn't make the Shetland dates at short notice.

Named after the migrating bird of the Nordic Regions (known as a Tirrick in Shetland!), this 5 piece crafts contemporary arrangements of traditional and original material, drawing on the music of Scotland, mainland Scotland and Scandinavia. Exploring the connections between the music of their homelands, Tern invites audiences on an exciting cross-cultural journey, deeply rooted in a Nordic soundscape.

Their single Shetland Reels, filmed in the Pianodrome in Edinburgh, was released on 31st March.