The Shetland Folk Festival Society

The Shetland Folk Festival prides itself each year in displaying up and coming talent and Project Smok brings together three of Scottish music's most exciting young players. Hearing the trio revitalise their native West Coast traditions with a high-octane brew of funk, jazz and electronic stylings. The band comprises of multi award-winning musicians Ali Levack on pipes & whistles (who is one of this year's finalists in the BBC Young Traditional Musician of the Year), Pablo Lafuente on guitar (who performed at last year's Festival with both Josie Duncan and Anxo Lorenzo) and Ewan Baird on bodhrán. To top everything off in style, the musical connections between three of Scotland's island groups - Orkney, Shetland and the Outer Hebrides - are to be celebrated at this year's Shetland Folk Festival, with one special collaborative 'Between Islands' concert featuring celebrated musicians and singers from each of the areas.