Music News:
Anna Nygaard - the Faroese participant in the
Danish X-Factor show - made it again yesterday
evening! Anna performed on stage with the rock song
'Fighter' by Christina Aquilera. This was the third
Live Show of the Danish song competition and the
voters made sure that Anna made it again to the next
round next weekend - now with only 6 participants
left!
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FIS -CANADA Tuesday, February 23, 2010 -
The Canadian government’s decision last week to ban
Danish fishing vessels from East Coast ports for
overfishing of shrimp has been knocked as
“heavy-handed” and “unacceptable” by the Faroe
Islands, whose fleets were also affected. Faroe
Islands Foreign Minister Jørgen Niclasen said his
fleets will defy Canada and continue to combat
NAFO’s “unreasonable and unfair allocation” for
Danish fishers in the 3L zone.
Music News:
The Faroese band Budam with the charismatic singer Búi
Dam as the front figure is gaining increasing popularity in
France where the band has been on tour. In
october 2009 they where interviewed by a Franch magazine,
L'oreille à l'envers, which is about the alternative music
scene. The interview was made in English and can be viewed
on the magazine's website in five parts - with a French
translation.
View a video and a live performance by Budam
HERE.
Thursday Feb 25, 2010:
Cross The Atlantic: You'll Get Swamped...!
"You'll Get Swamped" is a trailer to an upcoming
TV-series about the voyage that Bob and Ralph Brown
took in a small fishing boat called a flats boat.
They traveled 8312 miles across the North Atlantic
Ocean by way of the Viking route. The voyage was
made in the "Smallest Power Boat To Cross The
Atlantic". Their trip took them from the US to
Canada, Greenland, Island, FAROE ISLANDS, Shetland
Islands, Orkney Islands, Scottland, England, France,
Holland, and Germany.
www.crosstheatlantic.com is a
fundraiser for the Wounded Hero Foundations. Watch
the trailer here:
Wednesday Feb 24, 2010:
The Story Of The Sunken Ship SS Sauternes -
"Jólaskipið"
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"On the late afternoon of Sunday 7th December, 1941,
the Merchant Navy steamship SS Sauternes was lost
off the Faroe Islands in the North Atlantic and all
25 crew and passengers died ... The December visit
of the ship was eagerly anticipated. It was called
by the locals Jolaskipid , or ‘the Christmas Ship',
because as well as carrying 3,000 gallons of petrol,
garrison supplies, 22,000 Danish Kroner, minted in
Scotland because it was impossible to get coinage
from Copenhagen, it was also on this December trip
carrying Christmas puddings, Scotch Whisky, and
Christmas gifts." Read the
rest of the story as it was told by the Reverend
Canon Dr David Kennedy at the Sermon at Durham
Cathedral, Remembrance Sunday Service, preached on
Sunday 11th November 2007.
Atlantic Airways summer 2010 services:
Twice A Week Between London And The Faroes
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Atlantic Airways, the national airline of the Faroe
Islands, is to operate a twice-weekly service
(Mondays and Thursdays) from London Stansted
throughout June, July and August.
The flights, which actually begin on 3 June and end
on 30 August, will take just over two hours. Read
more here:
www.shephard.co.uk
Tuesday Feb 23, 2010:
Podcast Episode 43 is out!
Two Faroese Musicians To South by Southwest
Festival in Austin, US
There's not really any dancing in this
podcast, but there is a lot of singing. The Podcast
checks in with Hogni and Gudrid Hansdottir, who are
both playing at this year's South by Southwest music
festival in Austin, Texas. And we'll also see how
Anna Nygaard is doing on Denmark's X Factor.As
always, you can listen using iTunes or just use the
link below to get the file.
http://media.libsyn.com/media/faroepodcast/Podcast_43.mp3
Monday Feb 22, 2010:
Kerr Seeks To Revive Tiny Islands
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It`s hard running a national football team drawn
from a windswept archipelago, marooned halfway
between Scotland and Iceland, with a population that
does not succeed 50,000....
Kerr (Ed.: Brian Kerr, coach of the national
football team) is looking forward to ties with
Northern Ireland and Estonia, especially the former
as his father was born there. The Irishman is well
aware of what goals he has and how he can achieve
them. As one of the six nations in the bottom seeds,
he is aiming to emulate Liechtenstein who have
played their way into the next pot up “The target
would be to be in the second lowest pot next time
around. To do that will be hard, but I feel we can
build on the last qualifiers where we won a game and
pushed France hard at home”. “The under 21`s have
got eight points so far so we have the promise of
some good players coming through” said Kerr.
Read the whole article here: Nordic Football
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