Reviews
Wake the Union
The latest album from Devon duo Steve Knightleyand Phil Beer exhibits their trademark concern for making folk music speak to...
Reviewed in issue Jan/Feb/2013
Flying Circus
Sharon Shannon and the RTÉ Concert Orchestra
This week’s new word is ‘classional’, an apt term for the hybrid offspring of traditional and classical music, a mongrel...
Reviewed in issue Jan/Feb/2013
Windblown
Jamie Smith’s Mabon, the five-piece featuring accordion, fiddle, bouzouki, banjo, bass and percussion, draw their musical inspirations from the Celtic...
Reviewed in issue Jan/Feb/2013
Another Day, Another Story
There is a purity and precision to James Findlay’s rendering of songs and tunes from the English folk tradition. He...
Reviewed in issue Jan/Feb/2013
Kartushnik
Klezmofobia are a Copenhagen-based band founded by clarinettist Bjarke Kolerus and fronted by singer Channe Nussbaum. Their debut album sold...
Reviewed in issue Jan/Feb/2013
Noble Stranger
Nuala Kennedy, Irish singer and flute player, adopted Scots lass and now a New Yorker is not an artist to...
Reviewed in issue Jan/Feb/2013
Bye Bye Bayou
‘ We have outgrown our Cajun/zydeco roots’ declare Mama Rosin in the press blurb that came with the valedictorially titled...
Reviewed in issue Jan/Feb/2013
Murmurations
The album art for Murmurations is a work of some genius – each individual cover features a unique image, in...
Reviewed in issue Jan/Feb/2013
On Bluestockings
A graduate of Newcastle University’s Folk and Traditional Music degree course, McCormick was involved in the Song Links 2 project...
Reviewed in issue Jan/Feb/2013
