Reviews
About Time
It is indeed about time Northumbrian Piper Andy May, guitarist Ian Stephenson and fiddler Sophy Ball did the decent thing...
Reviewed in issue December/2015
The Wild Atlantic Way: A Journey in Irish Music
Launched in 2014, and claiming to be the world's longest coastal touring route, the Wild Atlantic Way threads itself along...
Reviewed in issue December/2015
What are Those for Songs!
Otava Yo have existed since 2004 and are popular across much of the former Soviet Bloc. The six-piece are essentially...
Reviewed in issue December/2015
From Source to Sea
The belt had snapped on my turntable, so I resorted to the USB tucked into the handsome gatefold vinyl set...
Reviewed in issue December/2015
Never Stop Moving
The lead singer with the folk-rock institution known as Oysterband, John Jones is pictured striding purposefully across a panoramic landscape,...
Reviewed in issue December/2015
I Dreamt I Was a Bird
The Derby folk singer's third album follows the politically engaged Single Flame and builds on the traditional and original songs...
Reviewed in issue December/2015
Remembering
Remembering is a curious mix. Mostly made up of self-penned songs, the album marks a new direction for Ross Ainslie...
Reviewed in issue December/2015
Wick to Wickham
Best known as a member of the fiddle-led supergroup Session A9, Scottish fiddler and composer Gordon Gunn has not recorded...
Reviewed in issue December/2015
AH!
Trad.Attack! is the latest group to combine traditional folk music styles with a contemporary approach. Formed by a trio of...
Reviewed in issue December/2015
