It is the folk festival this weekend in Shetland. We were lucky to have a band from Belgium come to the Tingwall hall to play to us. They are called WÖR and are a quintet. Fabio Di Meo was on saxophone, Pieterjan Van Kerckhoven on the Flemish bagpipes, Oscar Beerten on fiddle, Bert Ruymbeek on accordion and Ward Dhoore on guitar.

They played a short and lively before interacting with the classes and providing them with information about Belgium. Di Meo taught the children a few words in Dutch. Hello is Hallo, thank you is dank je, he told them it is a really easy language to learn, taxi is just taxi.

We learnt that the saxophone, chocolate and fries (apparently) were invented in Belgium!

They also had us up on our feet dancing – we had to clap our hands and stamp our feet along with the music. We also got to sing along with one song.

They were very nice and funny too. We showed our appreciation by giving them cards we made and a few gifts from Shetland. They were very kind and gave us a CD of theirs.

We really enjoyed it, they were great to listen to.