SheepFest'17

Highlights from the 2017 North Ronaldsay Sheep Festival

With huge thanks for all our support from island residents, local press and businesses, The Orkney Sheep Foundation and Awards for All Scotland and of course...

our volunteers. An unstoppable crew from far and wide, without whom the Festival would not be possible. Thank you."

- Kate Traill Price

I enjoy the Festival's many connecting layers... the building, the music, the people...

- Claire M

The re-built dyke is an enduring, tangible result of a great teamwork of enthusiastic, like-minded people...

- Arthur H

The building is almost trance-like as we pick, carry and place the natural stone from the old dyke onto the new...

- Carl

A huge thank you to everyone involved. I loved every minute and will be back next year

to continue the work...

- Isla D

The North Ronaldsay Sheep Festival should and can be top of everyone's bucket list...

- Eileen CR

I had a wonderful time in North Ron - which to me is as near to magical as it possible to get in the UK...

- Mark K

I'd about the Festival and didn't want to miss it - the re-building history is fascinating...

- Frank McK

A breathtaking holiday! The teamwork created a synergy down at the shoreline...

- Kitty L

I wanted to do something different, with a real purpose, in a beautiful and unique place...

- Judith S