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World Routes: Shetland Folk Festival 2013

World Routes: Shetland Folk Festival 2013: Episode 2

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Episode 2

Shetland Folk Festival 2013

BBC Radio 3 - World Routes, Shetland Folk Festival 2013, Episode 2

From the 2013 Shetland Folk Festival, performances by Kevin Henderson and Claire White.

Mary Ann Kennedy presents music from the 2013 Shetland Folk Festival. Including performances by Kevin Henderson and Claire White, plus highlights of the Isles' Gathering.

Mary Ann Kennedy continues Radio 3's celebration of British music with more from the Shetland Folk Festival, focusing on the Islands' own strong musical heritage, which shows influences from nearby Scandinavia as well as mainland Scotland. Local fiddle player Kevin Henderson plays tunes in Shetland style, Claire White sings in Shetland dialect, and there are highlights of the Isles' Gathering, a get-together of leading musicians from both Orkney and Shetland.

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Mary Ann Kennedy presents music performed at the 2013 Shetland Folk Festival

Mary Ann Kennedy visits the Shetland Folk Festival, an annual gathering of musicians from all around the British Isles and beyond, performing in venues spread across the UK's most northerly islands

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