Fairtrade and Feis Ile - Islay's Festival of Music and Malt

This Is Islay

This is Episode 14 of This Is Islay, a volunteer-led podcast celebrating the people, places, events and connections of Islay and Jura.

We’re excited to welcome Florence Grey as co-host to this episode, assisted by Jolyon Thurgood.

The goal of This Is Islay is to use podcasting to foster community involvement, education and training, providing resources and facilities to research, produce and promote content for a worldwide audience. We collaborate with Islay High School through the support of their staff and access to their recording facilities, and are working closely with MYFOS to involve the young people of Islay in digital media and podcasting. This episode was recorded at Cyber Sounds Studio in Port Ellen and at the Gaelic Centre (ICCI) near Bowmore.

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More about this podcast:

(01:00) - We hear from Petra Pearce, ambassador for Fairtrade with the Coop, and Gill Chasemore, Islay-based member of the Coop Council, who talk to us about Fairtrade Fortnight and the mission and activities of the Fairtrade programme.

More information about Fairtrade can be found at

https://www.coop.co.uk/our-suppliers/fairtrade and https://www.fairtrade.org.uk/

(18:20) - Then Florence Grey, Chair of Fèis Ìle, Islay’s Festival of Music and Malt, announces the return of the Festival, live and in-person, May 27th - June 4th, and shares her memories of the early years of the Fèis Ìle in the 1980’s and how it has evolved to the current day. More than just the “Whisky Festival”, Fèis Ìle presents the best of culture, heritage, music and spirit produced on Islay and Jura.

More information about Fèis Ìle can be found at https://feisile.co.uk/ as well as at various distillery sites.

Our theme music is '£50 Cashback' from The Fraser Shaw Trust. Keep up to date on Islay Sessions and the work of the Trust in support of the relief of multiple sclerosis at https://frasershawtrust.com .