Reviews
Tiganeasca
French Gypsy band Les Yeux Noirs take their name from a Django Reinhardt tune. They formed around fiddlers and singers...
Reviewed in issue Apr/May/2011
Tango Roto Live
Johanna Juhola has earned herself a reputation as one of the finest Finnish accordionists to emerge in recent years: a...
Reviewed in issue Apr/May/2011
One for the Road
Session A9 are made up of road veterans of Capercaillie, Peatbog Faeries, Boys of the Lough and Fiddlers’ Bid. You...
Reviewed in issue Apr/May/2011
Breathbox
I was lucky enough to be at a concert given by the accordionist Antti Paalanen at the Sibelius Academy in...
Reviewed in issue Apr/May/2011
A Matter of Life
The Penguin Café ensemble, led by Arthur Jeffes, son of Penguin Cafe Orchestra’s Simon Jeffes, has toured widely over the...
Reviewed in issue Apr/May/2011
Sétimo Fado
For an artist still only in her late 20s, it’s a remarkable achieve¬ment to be releasing a seventh album. The...
Reviewed in issue Apr/May/2011
Last
Last begins with ‘Gan to the Kye’, a Northumbrian complaint about the local men taken by rebels, leaving only the...
Reviewed in issue Apr/May/2011
Haunted Bird
Iain Morrison & Daibhidh Martin
Iain Morrison hails from the small village of Back on the Isle of Lewis. Having spent years trying to make...
Reviewed in issue Apr/May/2011
The Days That Shaped Me
Marry Waterson & Oliver Knight
Marry Waterson and Oliver Knight are the children of Lal Waterson, so grew up in that great singing family that...
Reviewed in issue Apr/May/2011
Still Getting Away With It
Taking the time out from his duo with Irish harper Máire Ni Chathasaigh and their quartet with Arty McGlynn and...
Reviewed in issue March/2011
