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Since Scottish music first made a major impact in Shetland, largely from the 1920's onwards, the islands have always produced top quality acts and artists in, or influenced by, this particular genre.

Bands such as the Islesburgh Dance Band, the Sapphires and the Hamefareres blazed the way throughout the 50's and 60's, while fiddlers such as Tom Anderson and Arthur Scott Robertson were highly influenced by the Scottish idiom.

Of course more recently bands such as the Jim Halcrow Dance Band, the Cullivoe Dance Band and the of Alan Nicolson Band have continued this success and now an even younger group of musicians 'Leeshinat' (Shetland dialect for "going for it") are keeping the genre well and truly alive and kicking, no doubt aided by the increasing interest in traditional music among younger generations, not only in Shetland but countrywide.

Fronted by the twin accordions of Darren Stewart and Brenden Scollay, with Dana Stewart on keyboards and John Leask on drums this is Shetland / Scottish dance music with an added dose of youthful fire in its belly.