Reviews
Ääneni Yli Vesien
Finnish folk music is undergoing another exciting resurgence with many young bands finding new and inventive ways of celebrating traditions....
Reviewed in issue May/2018
Solo
In instrumental folk, it's rare that a solo album is actually a solo album. An album of ‘solo fiddle’ will...
Reviewed in issue May/2018
Autumn Winds
It doesn’t take long to get sucked into the subtle beauty of Irish singer and song collector Niall Hanna's debut...
Reviewed in issue May/2018
Bright Field
Bright Field is a strong follow-up to Rowan and Anna Rheingans’ excellent 2015 album Already Home(a Top of the World...
Reviewed in issue May/2018
Avenging & Bright
O’Kane's Areas of High Traffic album, a revelatory reworking of traditional Irish songs with a very contemporary punch, was just...
Reviewed in issue April/2018
Self Preservation Society
Three years in the making, these three vinyl discs contain new versions of classic prog, folk and psychedelic rock tunes...
Reviewed in issue April/2018
The Wishing Tree
Players at the top of their game and in high demand in the Celtic music world, John Doyle, John McCusker...
Reviewed in issue April/2018
Live from the Union Chapel
Born out of informal Burns Night gigs in London, Band of Burns brings together 12 musicians from Scotland, Ireland, England,...
Reviewed in issue April/2018
The Butcher's Share
Daniel Kahn & The Painted Bird
If The Klezmatics were the pre-eminent klezmer band of the 1990s, I suspect Daniel Kahn & The Painted Bird might...
Reviewed in issue April/2018
A Garland for Joey: The War Horse Songbook
In the 1980s John Tams brought folk music to Britain's National Theatre in famous productions of The Mysteries and Lark...
Reviewed in issue April/2018
