"Bonnie Isle o' Whalsay" is a Shetland reel in A Major ('A' part) and A Mixolydian ('B' part). The parts are played AAB. Whalsay is a peat-covered island in the Shetland Islands. It is situated east of the Shetland Mainland and has an area of 7.6 square miles. The main local industries are fishing and crofting agriculture. The tune was printed in Brody's Fiddler's Fakebook (1983) and Martin & Hughes' Ho-ro-gheallaidh (1990). It was recorded by Tom Anderson and Aly Bain on The Silver Bow (1993), Willie Hunter And Violet Tulloch on 1982 (1982), Capercaillie on Cascade (1984), Aly Bain And Ale Möller on Fully Rigged (2001), The Alistair McCulloch Trio on Off the Hook (2018) and others.