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The words translate roughly as Up Holy Day All and it marks the end of the Christmas period and the beginning of lighter days. The main celebration happens on the last Tuesday in January in Lerwick, the principal town, where thousands of individuals take part in an unforgettable spectacle.
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Up Helly-Aa CD. The master tapes of the original 1980 vinyl recording of the Up Helly Songs featuring the Lerwick Brass Band and Registered Squad No 1 have now been carefully restored, digitally remastered and have been released in CD format. It is available for purchase online at makingwaves.uk.com.
Up Helly Aa 2020 Leading the Ranks David Gifford Photography
Every year in the Shetland Islands in the northern part of Scotland, the Viking fire festival of Up Helly Aa takes place.Filmed with Panasonic's latest profe.
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Welcome to the official website for Up Helly Aa, which takes place in Lerwick, Shetland, on the last Tuesday in January every year. Up Helly Aa day involves a series of marches and visitations, culminating in a torch-lit procession and the burning of a galley. Preparations
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The Up Helly Aa Viking Fire Festival. Alan Taylor. February 1, 2023. 18 Photos. In Focus. In Scotland's Shetland Islands, a fire festival named Up Helly Aa takes place every January to mark the.
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Up Helly Aa ( / ˌʌp hɛli ˈɑː / UP-hel-ee-AH; [1] [2] literally "Up Holy [Day] All") is a type of fire festival held annually from January to March in various communities in Shetland, Scotland, to mark the end of the Yule season.
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The spectacular Up Helly Aa Festival is a yearly celebration held in the Shetland Islands of Scotland, marking the rich and vibrant Viking heritage of the region. The festival has been a.
Up Helly Aa A Complete Guide to Attending the Up Helly Aa Festival, Shetland
The Up Helly Aa song, The Galley Song and The Norseman's home.Short versions of each song, as usually sang in the Lerwick Procession. Remastered, higher qua.
Up Helly Aa A Complete Guide to Attending the Up Helly Aa Festival, Shetland
Lerwick Up Helly Aa is a superb spectacle, a celebration of Shetland history, and a triumphant demonstration of islanders' skills and spirit. This northern Mardi Gras, run entirely by volunteers, lasts just one day (and all the following night). But it takes several thousand people 364 days to organise.
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Up Helly Aa, despite what is often believed, is not an ancient festival passed down from Norse times, but it is a festival with its roots in Shetland's Victorian era. And like any proper Victorian soiree, theatrical pomp and ceremony were allowed unb [.]
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Up Helly Aa (meaning Up Holy Day) is a huge spectacle, a celebration of Shetland history, and a demonstration of islanders' skills. BBC/Getty Images The festival takes place in Shetland,.
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.more Your tour of Lerwick Up Helly Aa 2019, in just 4 minutes.Europe's largest fire festival, nearly a century and a half in the making, Inherited and created by.
Up Helly Aa A Complete Guide to Attending the Up Helly Aa Festival, Shetland
Shetland's Up Helly Aa, its name derived from the Norn, the Norse-derived dialect of Shetland, for the Christian festival days after Christmas, is a Victorian-era invention. The first torchlit.
Up Helly Aa 2018 Procession David Gifford Photography
Up Helly Aa 2023. The 2023 Guizer Jarl was Neil Moncrieff who portrayed Njal Thorgeirsson. Learn more about Up Helly Aa 2023: Saga of Njal Thorgeirsson. Bill Head. List of Squads.
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Up Helly Aa is the general term for a series of festivals held in Shetland every year. Shetland, or the Shetland Islands, are a group of islands that sit around 100 miles off the north coast of mainland Scotland, and they are the most northerly inhabited islands of Great Britain. Today the islands are a part of Scotland and therefore the UK.
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The Up Helly Aa fire festivals are amongst the biggest annual celebrations in Shetland. Inspired by Shetland's Viking past, communities across the islands come together for a night of guizing (dressing up), burning torches through the streets and dancing the night away to traditional Shetland music.