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Review of Chronicles of the Great Irish Famine

Chronicles of the Great Irish Famine

Declan O'Rourke

Warner Music

Rating: ★★★★

Fear and flight marked Ireland in the 1840s, when a series of famines laid low the island with devastating consequences....

Reviewed in issue March/2018

Review of Beránci a Vlci

Beránci a Vlci

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Indies Scope

Rating: ★★★

This ambitious recording originates in a show put on at the Folk Holidays Festival in the Czech Republic. It brings...

Reviewed in issue March/2018

Review of Kroke 25: The Best Of

Kroke 25: The Best Of

Kroke

Universal Music Polska

Rating: ★★★★

The Polish trio Kroke celebrated their 25th anniversary in 2017. Kroke is the Yiddish name for Kraków, which was a...

Reviewed in issue March/2018

Review of Lunar

Lunar

Ross Daly & Kelly Thoma

Ross Daly

Rating: ★★★★

This double CD is a fascinating mix. The legendary lyra player Ross Daly and his student, the equally brilliant musician...

Reviewed in issue March/2018

Review of Live @ 25

Live @ 25

Peatbog Faeries

Peatbog Records

Rating: ★★★★

The Isle of Skye-based Peatbog Faeries have been a staple on the Scottish trad scene for 25 years now, and...

Reviewed in issue March/2018

Review of Saar

Saar

Estbel

Nordic Notes

Rating: ★★★★

This quartet could be said to be a kind of quintet, their phantom fifth member being the Baltic island of...

Reviewed in issue March/2018

Review of Matilda

Matilda

Pekko Käppi & K:H:H:L

Svart

Rating: ★★★

The jouhikko (ancient Finnish bowed lyre) has a unique place in the mysterious histories of Finland and Karelia, and its...

Reviewed in issue March/2018

Review of Stand & Deliver

Stand & Deliver

Pilgrims’ Way

Talking Cat Records

Rating: ★★

Pilgrims’ Way have had something of a chequered history. In 2011, the trio of singer Lucy Wright, fiddle player Tom...

Reviewed in issue March/2018

Review of Nordic Notes #100: Great Tunes from Scandinavia

Nordic Notes #100: Great Tunes from Scandinavia

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Nordic Notes

Rating: ★★★★

Nordic Notes is a German record label with a passion for the music of northern Europe and Finland in particular....

Reviewed in issue March/2018

Review of Follow Them True

Follow Them True

Stick in the Wheel

From Here Records

Rating: ★★★★★

Anyone who has seen Stick in the Wheel live recently will know just what a diamond-hard machine they have become....

Reviewed in issue March/2018

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