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- What’s New for the 25th of October: Some Autumnal Matters
- A Kinrowan Estate story: Contradances
- What’s New for 11th of October: Music reviews picked by Gary for you to consider, ‘Hotel California’ live by the Eagles for you to listen to, and a biography of the Eagles for you to read. So isn’t that enough for one edition here? I think so.
- A Kinrowan Estate story: Getting Ready for All Hallows Eve
- What’s New for the 27th of September: A tribute to Cape Breton music
- A Kinrowan Estate story: All The World’s A Stage
- What’s New for the 14th of September: books and music to see summer out
- What’s New for the 10th of September: It’s Definitely Late Summer!
- What’s New for the 30th of August: Dolly Pardon
- What’s New for the 16th of August: Deborah Grabien’s music criticism essays; new Americana and jazz, and some music for the Dog Days of Summer
- A Kinrowan Estate story: Midsomer Strangeness
- A Kinrowan Estate story: Contradances
- What’s New for the 26th of July: Witches in fiction, both books and film; an Americana reissue and some music on a smoky theme
- A Kinrowan Estate story: chicken pot pieces
- What’s New for the 19th of July: Charles de Lint’s Ottawa novels with a quote from Drink Down the Moon, Gary’s review of Nordic fiddle music, It’s Michele Walther and Irina Behrendt playing Aaron Copland’s ‘Hoe Down’ from his Rodeo album
- A Kinrowan Estate story: Midsomer Odd Things
- A Kinrowan Estate story: A Library and Its Librarian
- What’s New for the Fifth of July: Remembering Jane Yolen; some new Americana and jazz music; Fishing Blues
- A Kinrowan Estate Story: Recursive Loops
- What’s New for June 21: Jennifer Stevenson’s ‘Solstice’
- A Kinrowan Estate story: Turkish Coffee
- What’s New for the 7th of June: Foxes in literature, live Balkan music, comforting jazz, Americana jazz, and wonderfully weird fusion jazz; and John Fogerty live
- A Kinrowan Estate story: Bloodied Kings
- What’s New for the 24th of May: Gary’s Review of Elizabeth Bear’s White Space novels, iain’s review of the Lonely Signal Burns novellas by her, she reading her own story, ‘The Chains That You Refuse’, and I see Gary has some tasty music reviews fir us as well
- A Kinrowan Estate story: Our Greensward
- What’s New for the 10th of May: books reviewed by Jennifer Stevenson, music by Teddy Thompson, Americana music from all over, and some live music from John Fogerty
- A Kinrowan Estate story: A Walk
- What’s New for the 26th of April: the nature of Stories; some new and newish SF, plus new world, jazz, folk and Americana music
- A Kinrowan Estate story: A Spring Day
- What’s New for the 12th of April: Some new and recent SF; new Americana, Norwegian folk rock and jazz; and thoughts on War For The Oaks
Category Archives: Music
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute)
I love Mozart. His music is one of the things I’d insist on if I were going to be stranded on a desert island. Otherwise, I’d just refuse to be stranded. Among my favorite works by Mozart is The Magic … Continue reading
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Tagged classical music, Comedy, opera
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John Gay’s The Beggar’s Opera/Edward German’s Tom Jones (Highlights)
John Gay’s The Beggar’s Opera is a particularly English variant of a form that was widespread in Europe and later in America: known as a “ballad opera,” it is a close cousin to the German singspiel (a stellar example of … Continue reading
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Tagged opera, Popular music
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Annbjørg Lien’s Prisme
Gary H. Wikfors penned this review. This CD, recorded in July of 1996, documents the time when Norwegian hardangar fiddler (and classical violinist) Annbjorg Lien, found her own voice. Eleven of thirteen tracks are original compositions; the remaining two are adaptations … Continue reading
Annbjørg Lien’s Baba Yaga
Stephen Hunt penned this review. Reviewing a CD is usually a relatively straightforward task. Stick it on and listen to it, then categorise, compare, contrast and criticise! It’s the category bit that provides the sticking point here. Almost all of us … Continue reading
Annbjørg Lien’s Aliens Alive
Asher Black penned this review. Behind every traditional hardanger fiddle tune there is always a story, always a fairy tale, and you actually tell the stories when you play the fiddle. — Annbjørg Lien Annbjørg Lien finds, in folk music, everything from … Continue reading
Bellowhead’s Burlesque
Mike Wilson penned this review. Burlesque takes traditional English music and dresses it up with vim and vigour, presenting 13 glorious tracks with full-on arrangements that instantly grab your attention. Bellowhead are an 11-piece band, led by renowned English folk musicians John Spiers and … Continue reading
Steven Brust’s A Rose for Iconoclastes
I’ve read almost all of Steven Brust’s books, listened (innumerable times) to the song cycle he wrote with Adam Stemple, Songs from ‘The Gypsy’, and heard some samples of the music of Cats Laughing. All of this did absolutely nothing … Continue reading
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Tagged American folk rock, American pop music
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Richard D. Smith’s Bluegrass: An Informal Guide
Brendan Foreman penned this review. Bluegrass music really lives a strange existence within the world of American music. Its form is too stylized and polished to classify it properly as a “folk music.” After all, the big bluegrass events of the … Continue reading
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Tagged Americana music, Bluegrass music
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Donal Hickey’s Stone Mad for Music: The Sliabh Luachra Story
John O’Regan penned this review. Subtitled “The Sliabh Luachra story,” this book attempts to demythologize the heartland of Sliabh Luachra, a legendary area where Irish traditional music is concerned. To fans of Irish music, Sliabh Luachra will need no introduction. Something … Continue reading
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Tagged Irish trad music
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Dag Gården’s frå folk te’ folk
Judith Gennett penned this review. Located north of Oslo and south of Tondheim, The Gudbrandsdalen is known as Norway’s “valley of valleys.” It is, along with its western extension the Ottadalen, also known as a hotbed of “normal” fiddling, using the … Continue reading