Reviews
Beginner’s Guide to Celtic
How do you avoid the inevitable clichés of ‘Celticness’? This three-CD beginner's compilation has set itself an unenviable task. BBC...
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Zhyli-Byli
Sergei Starostin is a major figure on the Russian folk scene, yet he’s still all too little known, despite his...
Reviewed in issue Apr/May/2011
Some Kind of Certainty
Breabach member and 2008 Young Traditional Musician of the Year award winner Ewan Robertson opens his debut release with a...
Reviewed in issue Apr/May/2011
Buskers’ Ballroom
First of all, don't be put off by the cheesy cover. She’koyokh are Britain's best klezmer and Balkan music band....
Reviewed in issue Apr/May/2011
Anamkhara
Piraeus-born Cretan lyra player Kelly Thoma is a pupil of Ross Daly and a part of the diverse group of...
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Canu Rhydd
The literal translation of Canu Rhydd is ‘free poetry’; with their latest album Fernhill continue their pioneering exploration of vernacular...
Reviewed in issue Apr/May/2011
My Gypsy Waltz
The spiritual journey flamenco guitarist Eduardo Niebla takes with these eight pieces is rooted in various families: his own family,...
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Shadows Tall
The award-winning pairing of singer and pianist Siobhan Miller from Penicuik near Edinburgh and singer and fiddler Jeana Leslie from...
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You Etched Your Face in Mine
There seems to be a bit of a boom in the Hungarian folk scene right now, with some interesting new...
Reviewed in issue Apr/May/2011
