Reviews
The Fiery Margin
Few singers directly impugn deities or muse on the fickle frailties of human flesh in their songs these days. Indeed,...
Reviewed by Matt Milton in issue: December/2019
Find the Lady
Pauls Sartin and Hutchinson have worked as a duo for 15 years, burrowing into the sheet music and songbooks of...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: Nov/Dec/2010
The Drunken Gaugers
Kevin Crawford, Dylan Foley & Patrick Doocey
There's a delightfully tipsy quality to the familiar jig that gives this album, from three scions of New York's Irish...
Reviewed by Michael Quinn in issue: December/2017
The Wind Horse
Anda Union were Songlines ‘ favourite band at WOMAD this summer. From Hohhot, the capital of Inner Mongolia (the part...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: Nov/Dec/2011
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Vōytek (The Bear)
Klezmer has a rebel soul and this is certainly not absent in Tantz's debut album. The fact that they have...
Reviewed by Tom Newell in issue: Jan/Feb/2016
The Bold Kerryman
Known as one of Ireland's foremost singers and accordionists, Seamus Begley has variously recorded with members of his famous musical...
Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: November/2015
Romancing the Past
Urbane male voices, in unison, constitute a vital force in Latin American folk music. In Mexico, one of the most...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: July/2012
Towards the Light
Three musicians from different parts of the globe get together in Montréal, Canada, and decide to form a band. There’s...
Reviewed by Robin Denselow in issue: September/2024
The Winter Yards
This is – believe it or not – the first solo studio album from English folk singer-songwriter Steve Knightley in...
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: February/March/2025
Flying Circus
Sharon Shannon and the RTÉ Concert Orchestra
This week’s new word is ‘classional’, an apt term for the hybrid offspring of traditional and classical music, a mongrel...
Reviewed by Geoff Wallis in issue: Jan/Feb/2013
