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about

Written for a group of Shetland women who have been meeting for supper weekly for almost sixty years. They gather in each other’s houses on Thursdays between 8 and 11pm and enjoy a catch-up, homebakes and drinks together. It was a privilege to attend their 28th September 2017 gathering and share the space they create for each other.

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Thursday nights ir diamonds
A jewel atae wir weeks
A dram, an supper too
A time ta gaff an sheeks
For sixty years wir met
Wis six, an idders tö
Eight o clock’s da keek aff
O t ree oors o "whit’s new?"

If we need, we shout

If we need, we shout

We pit wir heids tagedder

An we work it out

Da Hennie’s foo wir kent
We gadder turn aboot
Birthdays an Christmas
Is whan we aa geng oot
In 1960
Fae bairns we took wir aese
Wir makkin it cam too
Fir dan wis leaner days

Wir faced life tagedder
Weddings, births an grief
Spaekin aathing trowe bar
Politics an belief
Work at da phone exchange
In offices forby
In taxis an textiles
Wis foo we med wir wye

Lerwick life his altered
Fae early hennie days
Oil wealth brocht changes
New rods, new maet, new claes
Helly buses
Geed fae da Market Cross
But taxis shön took owre
An memories wis wir loss

Sixty years o freendship
Whit is dat really wirt?
Yis, it’s disagreements
But n’er an ackwart wird
An wir bairns noo
Haes a hennie tö
Da acht o wir meetins
Biggin lives anew

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from Lasses Trust In Providence, track released December 10, 2018
Composition, vocals, fiddle: Claire White
Guitar: Robbie Leask

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Claire White Scotland, UK

Claire White is an award-winning Shetland singer-songwriter and fiddler. She learned music from Dr Tom Anderson and has been performing and teaching internationally for twenty-five years. She has previously played in Australia, New Zealand, the United Arab Emirates, the USA, Canada, Iceland, Norway, Sardinia, Turkey, Italy, Germany, Slovenia, Estonia, Poland, Ireland and the UK. ... more

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