sentences:  Known as the Hamefarin, it was an organized return trip to their native isles made by some 150 Shetlanders who had emigrated and settled worldwide in such countries as Australia, New Zealand, Canada and the USA.A week of social events of all kinds was laid on for the visitors at venues throughout the islands, and among the main attractions were a Grand Variety Concert and a Shetland Concert, each staged on two evenings in the Garrison Theatre, Lerwick.The opening act of each concert was a performance by forty ‘massed fiddlers’, players from all over the Shetland mainland gathered together by Tom Anderson and trained by him over the preceding winter months.