Last week 5B were fortunate to have a visit from Claire White as part of our topic ‘Stories of the Sea.’

Claire White is a fiddler and singer-songwriter from Shetland. She has toured the world performing music, and is a proud ambassador for the Shetland fiddle tradition. Her most recent album, Lasses Trust in Providence, is a collection of ninth to twenty-first century women’s tales, celebrating the ‘She’ in Shetland. Claire came to tell our class all about the incredible story of Betty Mouat and she explained how she’s celebrated her heroine in song and film.

There’s a link to the Shetland.org website for Betty’s full story and a clip of Claire’s short film at the end of this post. If you don’t know the story of Betty Mouat, it’s worth a read – she wis some lass!!

https://www.shetland.org/60n/blogs/posts/lasses-trust-in-providence-betty-mouat