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Music, merriment and community: 35th Shetland Accordion and Fiddle Festival a triumph

Ticket numbers returned to pre-Covid levels, with some events sold out, as 500 people packed into the Clickimin for the Grand Dance on Saturday night

16 October 2024

•Entertainment

Four musicians perform with accordions, a piano, and drums on a stage with red and gold decor.

Accordion and fiddle festival opens to packed audience

‘There’s nowhere else that we know of that gathers all ages, and all types of accordion and fiddle music’, says festival vice-chair Una Simpson

11 October 2024

A group of people are dancing on a gymnasium floor under stage lights, engaging in what appears to be a social gathering or dance event.

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Welcome to the 35th Shetland accordion and fiddle bonanza

9 September 2024

Accordion and fiddle club hosts ‘alternative’ festival weekend

The first event will take place at the Gulberwick Hall tonight (Friday)

8 October 2021

Local outfit Birls Aloud at a recent fiddle and accordion festival, that will now have to step up its own fundraising efforts after charitable trust cutbacks. Photo Dale Smith

More than £4,000 raised for accordion and fiddle club amid financial uncertainty

26 March 2021

Local outfit Birls Aloud at a recent fiddle and accordion festival, that will now have to step up its own fundraising efforts after charitable trust cutbacks. Photo Dale Smith

Accordion and fiddle festival postponed

5 May 2020

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