Reviews
Cambridge Folk Festival: Celebrating 50 Years
Not, as you might have supposed, a track from each year of the Cambridge Folk Festival's 50-year history, but a...
Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: Nov/Dec/2014
Segunda Vez
A prolific mandolin virtuoso, Mike Marshall juggles genres like other musicians juggle day jobs. Segunda Vez is basically the second...
Reviewed by Brendon Griffin in issue: Nov/Dec/2014
Stories Still Untold
Ewan McLennan continues his evolution into a major figure on the Scottish folk scene with his third album. Stories Still...
Reviewed by Tim Woodall in issue: Nov/Dec/2014
What's Here What's Gone
Since releasing his debut album as a melodeon player back in 1994 aged just 17, Daniels been an in-demand player...
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: Nov/Dec/2014
Seavaigers
Composer Sally Beamish originally approached Shetland fiddler Chris Stout and Dundee-born harpist Catriona McKay (who also work together in Fiddlers’...
Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: Nov/Dec/2014
Dzen
There are many projects that aim for a pan-African sound; they usually rely on collaboration between different cultures. Not for...
Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: Nov/Dec/2014
Feitiço Caboclo
What a wonderful CD: joyful, bursting with energy; rooted in tradition but as fresh as the morning light; and age-old...
Reviewed by Alex Robinson in issue: Nov/Dec/2014
Mariachi Beat
Mexico City's Los De Abajo first made an impression when David Byrne signed them to his Luaka Bop label. The...
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: Nov/Dec/2014
Classic African American Songsters
Ry Cooder once cuttingly said that blues music has been reduced to a soundtrack for selling jeans in TV ads....
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: Nov/Dec/2014
