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- A Kinrowan Estate story: puppeteers, and their puppets
- 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
- A Kinrowan Estate story: A Unified Theory of Libraries (A Letter to Anna)
- What’s New for the 29th of March: Beer and spirits, in song and text, some new Scandinavian fiddle music and jazz flute music, and more
- A Kinrowan Estate story: A Ghostly Librarian
- What’s New for the 15th of March: some DeLint stories for early spring; lots of polskas, Serbian folk rock, progressive jazz, and Nordic music from the archives
- A Kinrowan Estate story: Hedge Witches
- What’s New for the 1st of March: Emma Bull’s War for The Oaks, Rosanne Cash’s ‘Runaway Train’, Johnny Cash at San Quentin, plus new Americana and jazz music
- A Kinrorwan Estate story: Cranachanh
- What’s New for the 15th of February: Some Seanan McGuire fantasy, Alison Bechdel’s latest, Pamela Dean’s Tam Lin; Nordic sounds, old time, Americana and Tex-Mex music
Category Archives: Music
Serras’ Serras
Formed in the summer of 1998, Serras is comprised of members of other well-known Danish bands, including Sorten Muld, DUG, DKLokomotive and Puls. Combining straightforward fiddling with electric and acoustic guitars, bass, drums and saxophones, the band presents a unique … Continue reading
Anders Norudde’s Himself
A founding member of the seminal Swedish folk band Hedningarna, Anders Norudde has finally gifted Nordic music fans with his first solo effort. Accompanied only by Goran “Freddy” Frederiksson on guitar and bouzouki, Norudde treats listeners to twenty-six full tracks … Continue reading
Capercaillie’s Dusk Till Dawn: The Best of Capercaillie and Karen Matheson’s The Dreaming Sea
One of Scotland’s more endearing — and enduring — bands, Capercaillie (named, curiously, for a particularly large species of Scottish grouse) has been making beautiful music for nearly twenty years now. Formed in 1984 by Donald Shaw, Karen Matheson and … Continue reading
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Tagged Scottish music
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Mairi MacInnes’ Tickettyboo
Judith Gennett penned this review. Some time back, Scottish Gaelic singer Mairi MacInnes was commissioned by the BBC to record music for a series called “Songs And Rhymes.” This children’s album is a collection of MacInnes’ favorites from the series. The … Continue reading
Van Morrison and the Chieftains’ Irish Heartbeat
Irish Heartbeat is an album I have lived with for almost 20 years. I first purchased it on vinyl in ’88 and wore the grooves down playing it over and over again. Then in 2003 on vacation in Ireland, my wife … Continue reading
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Shooglenifty’s Arms Dealer’s Daughter
As far as I can tell, every little hamlet harbours some rad trad types with lots of electronic equipment in their garages. Hell, some of them have even invented instruments, as did Garry Finlayson of Shooglenifty with his souped up … Continue reading
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Tagged Celtic music, Scottish music
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Changeling’s The Hidden World
Patrick O’Donnell penned this review. In the days when magic reigned and the fairy folk made themselves known to human folk, a “changeling” was a fairy baby switched with a human baby. Sometimes the parents took no notice until the child … Continue reading
Cantychiels’ Cantychiels
Naomi wrote this review. The members of Cantychiels — all active members of the Scottish folk music community — have apparently been playing together in various incarnations for several years, but this is the first chance that they’ve had, to … Continue reading
Bannal’s Waulking Songs
There is something particularly stirring about work songs of anyculture. The rhythmic, repetitive strains speak volumes of thesociety for which they were first sung. The sound and choice of thewords, the pattern of call and response, and the method of … Continue reading
Danú at The Playhouse
Faith penned this review. It was snowing. Danu had driven in from Charlottetown, a four-hour drive at the best of times, including a daunting bridge over the Northumberland Strait and long stretches of woods, much longer with the road slushy and the wind … Continue reading