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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
Scrod Pudding’s Food For Your Feet
One of the first things I liked and found amusing about this album was the band’s name: Scrod Pudding. Well, for years I’ve been one of the Marrowbones and I’ve had to endure the endless and sometimes embarrassing jokes people … Continue reading
Penguin Cafe Orchestra’s Concert Program
I really, really hate it when my arsenal of comparisons, parallels, antecedents and influences doesn’t work. It is one of my chief means, as a reviewer, of giving my audience a handle, an entrée, so to speak, into something that … Continue reading
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Tagged Contemporary Classical music
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A Loreena McKennitt Retrospective, The First Decade More or Less
JoSelle Vanderhooft penned this review. From her beginnings in the mid 1980s selling self-produced tapes from her car and by mail order, to international stardom — Loreena McKennitt has come a long way in her long career. For those just discovering … Continue reading
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Tagged Celtic music, Loreena McKennitt
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Loreena McKennitt’s Live in Paris and Toronto
Naomi de Bruyn penned this review. Loreena was born and raised in Morden, Manitoba, a small prairie community in central Canada. In 1978, she won the Du Maurier Search For Talent and represented Canada at UNESCO in Paris that year, and … Continue reading
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Tagged Celtic music, Loreena McKennitt
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Loreena McKennitt’s An Ancient Muse
JoSelle Vanderhooft penned this review. Normally, I can’t stand winter. It’s cold, it’s dismal, and I tend to get sick a lot. Nonetheless, winter 2006 has made me one happy woman, in spite of the general nastiness. This is largely thanks … Continue reading
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Tagged Celtic music, Loreena McKennitt
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Fairport Convention’s Live At The BBC
With the release of the original Heyday cassette in 1976, Fairport Convention was probably one of the earliest groups to take advantage of the “BBC Sessions” format. Since then, it has become reasonably commonplace for bands to release such artefacts, sometimes to … Continue reading
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Tagged British folk music, British folk rock music, Fairport Convention
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Nigel Schofeld’s Fairport Unconventional
What I consider the best book ever written on this English not quite just folk band was never actually released as a book. Confused? Well let me sort out this matter. Back in 2002, the thirty-five anniversary of the band, … Continue reading
Arsis Hand Bell Ensemble’s Awake, my heart!
Eric Eller penned this review. Hand bells have always meant one thing to me — Christmas. How limited my concept was — the Arsis Hand Bell Ensemble sets this conception clearly as the narrow, provincial perspective it is with Awake, My Heart!. … Continue reading
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Tagged Estonian traditional music
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Warsaw Village Band’s Uprooting
The Warsaw Village Band burst onto the world music scene when their album People’s Spring was released internationally in early 2004. This young Polish group set out to combine a deep respect for the fiddle traditions of their homeland with a punk rock … Continue reading
Warsaw Village Band’s People’s Spring
As could probably be guessed by the band’s name, the Warsaw Village Band hails from Poland’s capital city, but plays the folk music that developed in its homeland’s villages. What might surprise people, though, is how this group of six young Poles … Continue reading
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Tagged Polish traditional music
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