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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
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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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
Dervish at Henry Crown Auditorium
No’am penned this review. Torrential rain didn’t deter most of the audience from attending the third and final concert of Dervish’s short Israeli concert tour on Saturday night at the Henry Crown auditorium in Jerusalem. A brief show of hands towards … Continue reading
Capercaillie’s Roses and Tears
My first acquaintance with Capercaillie was an album that turned out to be a “crossover” — Celtic trad group goes pop. At least some of that pop influence seems to have made a home in the group’s style — I … Continue reading
Capercaillie’s At the Heart of It All
I’m still working my way through Capercaillie, which, out of a host of interesting musicians from many traditions, remains one of the most engaging groups I’ve run across. At the Heart of It All seems to pull together a lot … Continue reading
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Capercaillie’s To the Moon
To the Moon was my first exposure to Capercaillie, so of course, it was what’s generally considered their “crossover” album. This is by no means a negative, or even something that’s very obvious: it’s more apparent in the rhythm patterns, … Continue reading
Eric Brace & Peter Cooper’s C&O Canal
How can you go wrong with an album of country music that includes songs by the likes of Emmylou Harris, Mary Chapin Carpenter, John Starling, and Alice Gerrard, among others? Well, you’d have to try really hard to blow it, … Continue reading