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Review of One for the Pot

One for the Pot

The Teacups

Haystack Records

Rating: ★★★★

All music begins with the human voice, and The Teacups’ success is borne out of their trust in a pure...

Reviewed in issue Apr/May/2014

Review of The Hum

The Hum

O'Hooley & Tidow

Top of the World

No Masters

Rating: ★★★★

A neighbour of Belinda O'Hooley and Heidi Tidow brought them news that the sale of a house close by had...

Reviewed in issue Apr/May/2014

Review of Turas

Turas

Marit & Rona

Watercolour Music

Rating: ★★★★

Now this is interesting. A collaboration between Swedish multi-instrumentalist Marit Fält and Oban-born fiddler Rona Wilkie, BBC Scotland's Young Traditional...

Reviewed in issue Apr/May/2014

Review of Fiona Hunter

Fiona Hunter

Fiona Hunter

Rusty Squash Horn Records

Rating: ★★★★

The eponymously titled debut album from Malinky vocalist and cellist Fiona Hunter marks her out as a formidable and talented...

Reviewed in issue Apr/May/2014

Review of At Our Next Meeting

At Our Next Meeting

The Furrow Collective

Furrow Records

Rating: ★★★★

The Furrow Collective is a four-piece comprising some of the leading young lights in English and Scottish folk and traditional...

Reviewed in issue Apr/May/2014

Review of Where I Come From

Where I Come From

Christy Moore

Sony/Columbia

Rating: ★★★★

If music provides a map of a nation's soul, then Ireland's foremost troubadour, Christy Moore, is a formidable cartographer.There's a...

Reviewed in issue Apr/May/2014

Review of The Rough Guide to Scottish Music

The Rough Guide to Scottish Music

VARIOUS ARTISTS

World Music Network

Rating: ★★★★

Compiled by broadcaster and singer Mary Ann Kennedy, this latest compilation illustrates the rich variety of the crop of Scottish...

Reviewed in issue Apr/May/2014

Review of The Brightest Path

The Brightest Path

Patsy Reid

Classy Trad Records

Rating: ★★★★

Patsy Reid is an in-demand fiddler who's been heard with Breabach, Kathryn Tickell and The Treacherous Orchestra, among others. She...

Reviewed in issue Apr/May/2014

Review of Lampascioni e Cianfrusaglie

Lampascioni e Cianfrusaglie

Le Tre Sorelle

La Paranza del Geco

Rating: ★★★

Le Tre Sorelle (the Three Sisters) are a young female trio of singers and multiinstrumentalists, who are not actually sisters....

Reviewed in issue Apr/May/2014

Review of Harponium

Harponium

Catriona McKay

Glimster Records

Rating: ★★★

Scottish harper Catriona McKay says that with her latest album she is ‘fusing the timbres of harp and harmonium into...

Reviewed in issue Apr/May/2014

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