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Review of Grace Will Lead Me Home

Grace Will Lead Me Home

Angeline Morrison, Cohen Braithwaite-Kilcoyne & Jon Bickley

Invisible Folk

Rating: ★★★

Last year was the 250th anniversary of the writing of ‘Amazing Grace’ while next year is the 300th anniversary of...

Reviewed in issue June/2024

Review of Vou Ficar Neste Quadrado

Vou Ficar Neste Quadrado

Ana Lua Caiano

Glitterbeat Records

Rating: ★★★

An experimental fusion of Portuguese folk, introspective soul-searching and out-there electronica, this debut album by Ana Lua Caiano is an...

Reviewed in issue June/2024

Review of Jolifanto

Jolifanto

ZA! + Perrate

Top of the World

Lovemonk

Rating: ★★★★

For all its depth of tradition, flamenco has always been moved by innovation. In 1979 Camarón de le Isla’s La...

Reviewed in issue June/2024

Review of At Fargrounds

At Fargrounds

Jacken Elswyth

Wrong Speed Records

Rating: ★★★

Jacken Elswyth is a banjo player and instrument maker known for her work as a member of the Shovel Dance...

Reviewed in issue June/2024

Review of Yellow Roses

Yellow Roses

Niamh Bury

Claddagh Records

Rating: ★★★★

Nominated in the Best Emerging Artist category of the RTÉ Folk Awards 2024, Niamh Bury is swiftly rising as one...

Reviewed in issue June/2024

Review of Howl

Howl

Daisy Rickman

Daisy Rickman

Rating: ★★★★

Howl means ‘Sun’ in Cornish, and this is the Kernow singer and artist’s second album, following on from 2022’s Donsya...

Reviewed in issue June/2024

Review of Duets

Duets

Ben Nicholls

Hudson Records

Rating: ★★★★

Featuring many of the artists with whom he has worked over a 30-year career, bassist and singer Ben Nicholls parades...

Reviewed in issue June/2024

Review of Hajda!

Hajda!

Hajda Banda

Top of the World

Karrot Kommando

Rating: ★★★★

This is the debut of a new band focussing on the traditional music of Polesia, a region of eastern Poland,...

Reviewed in issue June/2024

Review of Slåtter fra Gaupdalen IV (Tunes from the Lynx Valley IV)

Slåtter fra Gaupdalen IV (Tunes from the Lynx Valley IV)

Johanna-Adele Jüssi

Ta:lik

Rating: ★★★★

Originally from Estonia, fiddle player Jüssi has spent much of her life travelling around the Nordic countries as well as...

Reviewed in issue June/2024

Review of Precious Collection

Precious Collection

Fran & Flora

Hidden Notes

Rating: ★★★

The London-based klezmer duo of cellist Francesca Ter-Berg and violinist Flora Curzon return with the follow-up to their 2019 debut...

Reviewed in issue May/2024

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