Reviews
The Desperate Battle of the Birds
The second album from one of today's top young Scottish folk acts shares its arresting name with a well-known piobaireachd...
Reviewed by Susan Wilson in issue: June/2010
Bulgaria: The Art of the Gadulka
The gadulka is the Bulgarian version of the pear-shaped fiddle, found in various forms right across the eastern Mediterranean. Like...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: March/2010
Live at the Scala Theatre Stockholm
It wouldn’t be exaggerating to call singer/guitarist Eric Bibb, son of activist, actor and folk singer, Leon Bibb, now five...
Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: June/2024
The Old Wheel of Fortune
There's an old Irish saying that claims'the older the fiddle, the sweeter the tune.’ It's doubtful whether the fiddles employed...
Reviewed by Geoff Wallis in issue: Apr/May/2012
The Best of Sergio Mendes
If you’ve only ever heard two Brazilian songs, they are likely to be the Getz and Gilberto version of‘The Girl...
Reviewed by Alex Robinson in issue: March/2010
Night Nurse: The Best Of
Gregory Isaacs, who died at the age of 59 in October last year, was one of the most popular and...
Reviewed by Neil Foxlee in issue: June/2011
May
You may well have seen and enjoyed The Sweet Lowdown on their first UK tour recently. They’re an award-winning, all-female...
Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: Aug/Sep/2014
Bonfrost
When they got together in 2009 The Nordic Fiddlers Bloc were something of a curiosity: three outstanding string players from...
Reviewed by Fiona Talkington in issue: March/2021
Plight o’ Sheep
It's a powerful, muscular sound that characterises the new release from the intrepid Scots trio. Hard to believe it has...
Reviewed by Billy Rough in issue: July/2023
Northern Sky
Anna, Sheila and Clare Friel of Donegal play the fiddle, flute, tin whistle and uilleann pipes, and between them trade...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: May/2025
