Reviews
Handmade Tales
Based in Denmark but with roots in traditional Irish music, Manchester-born John Pilkington (guitar, bouzouki and vocals), with Danes Louise...
Reviewed in issue November/2019
Gold of Scar & Shale
For his second solo album, the highly regarded West Yorkshire singer and multi-instrumentalist Jack Rutter recorded the whole set live...
Reviewed in issue November/2019
Kodu
Leana & Hartwin are a folk duo based on Saaremaa, an Estonian island in the Baltic Sea.Leana Vapper-Dhoore was born...
Reviewed in issue November/2019
Battlefield Dance Floor
This 18th studio album from Devon favourites Show of Hands treads territory their loyal fans know so well – a...
Reviewed in issue November/2019
Benedicte Maurseth
Benedicte Maurseth is a pre-eminent player of the Norwegian Hardanger fiddle. Unlike the conventional violin, a Hardanger fiddle has four...
Reviewed in issue November/2019
Awaken
Their name is certainly as playful as the music: a blend of distinctly old-school Parisian swing and Gypsy jazz with...
Reviewed in issue November/2019
The Road to Peterloo
Two centuries ago, mounted and armed troopers viciously waded into thousands of men, women and children who were gathered peacefully...
Reviewed in issue November/2019
Old Friends & Exhausted Enemies
Luke Daniels' four solo albums since his days as the well-respected button accordion virtuoso heard on Riverdance or with the...
Reviewed in issue November/2019
Dentro Desse Mar
The accordion might sound neither very dancy nor particularly occult, but this quartet from Águeda near Porto do something with...
Reviewed in issue November/2019
