Reviews

Urranta

Deirdre Graham

Deirdre Graham comes from a musical family on the Isle of Skye. After studying Gaelic song and clarsach at the...

Reviewed in issue January/2021

Puput

Cocanha

By singing in the ancient French regional Occitan language accompanied mainly by bodily percussion, this all-female vocal group will inevitably...

Reviewed in issue January/2021

Mare

Quadro Nuevo

Why do Germans go to the Mediterranean for their holidays? I know, a controversial question, and liable to prompt talk...

Reviewed in issue January/2021

Østerlide

Østerlide

Norwegian trio 0sterlide cannot be accused of overstatement. This album of folk vignettes is so subtle as to at times...

Reviewed in issue January/2021

Live at St George’s

O’Hooley & Tidow

One of British folk’s best-loved dynamic duos (and now with a baby son attached), O’Hooley and Tidow marked ten years...

Reviewed in issue January/2021

In Trad We Trust

Sväng

This irrepressible Finnish harmonica quartet have delighted and astonished us for 17 years, producing eight albums ranging music from Sibelius...

Reviewed in issue January/2021

Mariza Canta Amalia

Mariza

In her salad days as the young pretender, Mariza was as embarrassed as she was flattered by the comparison with...

Reviewed in issue January/2021

Words of a Fiddler’s Daughter: Rúnian

The Ciderhouse Rebellion with Jessie Summerhayes

Anyone who has spent time on Lindisfarne Island off Britain’s Northumbrian coast in the wintertime knows just how exposed it...

Reviewed in issue January/2021

Spectres

Tom Moore & Archie Moss

This instrumental folk duo are young musicians with a long pedigree. Immersed in the English folk scenesince birth, they are...

Reviewed in issue January/2021

Home Recordings

Martin Simpson

Simpson was scheduled to deliver a live album this year. Instead, he went home, found a room, pressed record, and...

Reviewed in issue January/2021