News / Shearwater show
TIM Dalling, the accordionist fall guy of Shetland Folk Festival favourites The New (and previously Old) Rope String Band, is paying Shetland a visit this month…but not with The New Rope String Band.
Dalling is coming to do four shows with his friend and master storyteller Malcolm Green in Hillswick, Skerries, Lerwick and Fair Isle starting on 16 April. They mark the culmination of a tour that started in the south of England
The show is called Shearwater and explores the world of seabirds and our connection with them, taking as its starting point Green’s research trip as a final year biology student camping on the uninhabited Icelandic island of Elliday in 1969 to study seabirds.
From there the journey takes the audience into myths, fables, songs and the extraordinary life-cycle of the Manx Shearwater (Lyrie or Cockersootie in dialect).
Dalling says it is a very different show from the Ropes and he hopes folk won’t be disappointed that he’s not bringing his kilt or his fish-tank.
But he does promise an entertaining evening that will be exciting, humorous and moving.
The show is on a tour which started on England’s south coast at the end of last month.
One reviewer described it as “a curious blend of photo-documentary, autobiography, romantic quest and Nordic saga with nary a dull moment, delivered with great verve and wit by these two poetic champions”.
Shearwater will be at Da Böd, in Hillswick, on Monday 16 April at 7.30pm with support from Northmavine Fiddle & Accordion Club. Tickets cost £5 and are available on the door or by phoning 01806 503348.
This will be followed by performances in Skerries on 18 April, Lerwick TA Hall on 19 April and Fair Isle on 20 April.
More information is available from www.timdalling.co.uk
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