Club Programme

Our resident Festival Club musicians and other visiting performers will be leading sessions at various points throughout the afternoon in Room 11. Please join in if you fancy!

12.00 Session led by musicians from Astro Bloc
15.30 Session with our Resident Club musicians - Ian Stephenson, Andy May, Annie Jessop and Rog Peppe

The 43rd Festival will get underway with the official opening at our Festival Club at Islesburgh Community Centre! Each afternoon of the Festival, members will have access to live programmed music in Room 16 featuring both visiting and local artistes. Thursday afternoon will showcase short sets from some of the acts appearing over the Festival weekend - providing attendees with a flavour of what lies ahead. This is not a ticketed event and afternoon Club programming is included as part of your Festival membership. Numbers will be limited in room 16 and we anticipate this event will be very popular. Please be considerate of this. We request that you do not hold seats for others as it is unfair to those who have queued

Our resident Festival Club musicians and other visiting performers will be leading sessions at various points through the afternoon (probably room 11). Join in if you fancy.

12.00 Sessions with Elizabeth Davidson Blythe, Daniel Quayle and Elias Alexander
16.00 Resident Club Session Musicians.

Festival Club Live Music Programme Room 16

Each afternoon of the Festival, members will have access to live programmed music in Room 16 featuring both visiting and local artistes. Friday afternoon will be split into a lunchtime slot of two acts and a late afternoon slot of three acts. This is not a ticketed event or official concert. Afternoon Club programming is included as part of your Festival membership. Numbers will be limited in room 16 and we anticipate many members wishing to take advantage of this live music and hope there is an ongoing flow of members coming and going to enjoy the atmosphere. It would be greatly appreciated if members who have been seated in room 16 for some time give others the opportunity to come in if there are people waiting.
TIMINGS ARE APPROXIMATE AND MAY BE ALTERED AT ANY TIME

FRIDAY LUNCHTIME AMERICANA

13.00 Michael Daves & Jacob Jolliff
13.40 Margo Cilker

ROOM 16 will be closed for sound checks between 14.10 and 15.30

15.45 Astro Bloc
16.30 Elizabeth Davidson-Blythe & Daniel Quayle
17.10 The Hot Seats

Cocktails being served 1-6pm! Room 12.

Shetland Fiddle Workshop led by renowned instrumentalist and fiddler Ross Couper in Room 10, 15.15- 16.30 (all ages and abilities welcome)

Children's song and story workshop led by Maria Barclay, Lewis Barclay and Seth Travins in Room 10. Bring your bairns along to hear a mix of songs, including some in Shetland dialect, as well as some puppetry and percussion.

Looping Demonstration workshop with Elias Alexander in room 16, who will explain how he combines live looping and electronics with a wide variety of instruments from bagpipes to fiddle, guitar, whistle and keys!

Various sessions throughout day led by visiting performers from this year's Festival.

12.00 Manx Tunes Session (Rm 11)
14.00 Resident Club Musicians (Rm 11)
15.00 Bluegrass sessions led by Michael Daves and Jacob Jolliff (Rm 10)

Festival Club Live Music Programme Room 16

Each afternoon of the Festival, members will have access to live programmed music in Room 16 featuring both visiting and local artistes. Friday afternoon will be split into a lunchtime slot of three acts and a late afternoon slot of three acts. This is not a ticketed event or official concerts and afternoon Club programming is included as part of your Festival membership. Numbers will be limited in room 16 and we anticipate many members wishing to take advantage of this live music and hope there is an ongoing flow of members coming and going to enjoy the atmosphere. It would be greatly appreciated if members who have been seated in room 16 for some time give others the opportunity to come in if there are people waiting.
TIMINGS ARE APPROXIMATE AND MAY BE ALTERED AT ANY TIME

13.00 The Traveling Janes
13.50 Beltane Ree
14.40 Adam Guest Band
15.30 Amy Laurenson, Esko Jarvela (& possibly some friends!)
16.20 Good Guy Hank
17.10 North Country Fair

Being served 1-6pm

Festival Club Live Music Programme Room 16

Each afternoon of the Festival, members will have access to live programmed music in Room 16 featuring both visiting and local artistes. This is not a ticketed event or official concerts and afternoon Club programming is included as part of your Festival membership. Numbers will be limited in room 16 and we anticipate many members wishing to take advantage of this live music and hope there is an ongoing flow of members coming and going to enjoy the atmosphere. It would be greatly appreciated if members who have been seated in room 16 for some time give others the opportunity to come in if there are people waiting.
TIMINGS ARE APPROXIMATE AND MAY BE ALTERED AT ANY TIME

13.00 Shetland Mandolin Band
13.50 Andy May Trio (Andy May, Esko Jarvella, Ian Stephenson)
14.40 Richard Wood & Friends
15.30 The Maes & Guests
16.20 A collaboration of visiting performers to close the Festival Club.

Join celebrated Australian folk duo, The Maes, for a choral workshop, featuring multi part arrangements. Elsie and Maggie Rigby lead a thriving weekly choir in their home city of Melbourne. Join them for a taster session in the Drama Room 13.30-1500.

Shetland Dance Workshop with young dance band Filskit. Come along and learn to dance some Shetland traditional dances. We have arranged a dance caller (who goes by the name Auntie Vera) in case anyone needs to learn the dances BUT please, experience dancers - come you too! The dance will take place in the Downstairs Hall from 14.00-15.30.

Nordic session in Room 10, led by some of this year's Nordic visiting musicians.