Reviews

Grace Bay

Tommy McCarthy & Louise Costello

Offspring of noted figures in their native West Clare and County Galway, the husband-and-wife team of Tommy McCarthy and Louise...

Reviewed in issue July/2014

Danzas Brancas

Orquestra Folk SonDeSeu

SonDeSeu, led by veteran composer Rodrigo Romaní, is a sprawling folk orchestra that combines a quintet of gaitas with armies...

Reviewed in issue July/2014

Agua en la Boca

María Berasarte

We tend to think of fado as an uncompromising, impassioned, dark-hued genre. María Berasarte was born in San Sebastian, sings...

Reviewed in issue July/2014

Louder Than Words

The Henry Girls

After playing together as The Henry Girls for more than a decade, sisters Karen, Lorna and Joleen McLaughlin from County...

Reviewed in issue July/2014

The Moral of the Elephant

Martin & Eliza Carthy

We’ve heard them together in Waterson:Carthy, but this is the first time father and daughter have recorded as a duo,...

Reviewed in issue July/2014

In a Box

Megson

The name of husband-and-wife duo Megson is now familiar on the English folk circuit. Their first studio album in four...

Reviewed in issue July/2014

Music from Romania

VARIOUS ARTISTS

These recordings were made by the celebrated musicologist Deben Bhattacharya in 1965, the year Nicolae Ceauşescu came to power. It...

Reviewed in issue July/2014

Live at 10: The 10th Anniversary Concert

Beoga

A decade after their debut album, County Antrim's Beoga are celebrating with a lively and satisfyingly long anniversary CD and...

Reviewed in issue July/2014

House of Jacks

Blair Dunlop

Frontman for the Albion Band and winner of a BBC Radio 2 Horizon Folk Award in 2013, Dunlop brings a...

Reviewed in issue July/2014

Inter-Celtic

Carlos Núñez

Is Galician piper Carlos Núñez the most enthusiastic, optimistic, energetic musician on earth? From the first blow on this 16-track...

Reviewed in issue July/2014