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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
Inti-Illimani’s The Best of Inti-Illimani
Brendan Foreman penned this review. As I noted in my review of their fantastic 1999 release, Amar de Nuevo, Inti-Illimani is a veteran Chilean musical group who has managed to weather the severities of Chile’s politics since the late 1960s (being more … Continue reading
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Tagged Chilean traditional music
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Beginish’s Beginish
Naomi de Bruyn penned this review. Beginish is a potent Irish traditional group which was born from four musicians who are successful in their own right, and have a long history of collaborating with one another. This history of collaboration is … Continue reading
Kalman Balogh and the Gypsy Cimbalom Band’s Gypsy Jazz
Brendan Foreman penned this review. As played by this fine ensemble, gypsy jazz is an high-spirited, infectious conglomeration of swing, klezmer and assorted Eastern European traditional musics with ample room for jazzy soloing and even the odd scat here and there. … Continue reading
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Tagged Gypsy jazz
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Athenians’ Greek Songs, Dances and Rembetiko
Brendan Foreman wrote this review. This CD is one of the latest in Rounder’s economy label, EasyDisc.Consisting of several excellent examples of Greek traditional music sampled from several previous Arc recordings, it features the vastly proficient playing of The Athenians. This … Continue reading
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Tagged Greek traditional music
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Allen Lowe’s American Pop from Minstrel to Mojo: On Record 1893 to 1957
Brendan Foreman penned this review. Reading Allen Lowe’s book American Pop from Minstrel to Mojo: On Record 1893 to 1957, I found myself agreeing with the late Tupac Shakur’s vision of the afterlife. Heaven would simply be a large night club filled … Continue reading
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Tagged American pop music, American popular music, blues, jazz, Ragtime
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Aaron Copland’s Music for the Theatre
Aaron Copland and Leonard Bernstein are household names in the United States. Copland is perhaps the one American composer most U.S. citizens could identify if asked. Perhaps not as well known is the fact that Copland and Bernstein were friends … Continue reading
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Tagged Aaron copland, Contemporary Classical music
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The Tinker’s Own’s Old Enough to Know Better and Bending the Banshee’s Ear
The cover art for The Tinker’s Own’s most recent release, Bending the Banshee’s Ear, is exquisitely eerie. It blends a faint tracery of Celtic knotwork with a drawing of a lovely Banshee woman in fluttering tatters, and superimposes her over a … Continue reading
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Tagged Celtic music, Charles de lint, The Little Country
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Itzhak Perlman’s In the Fiddler’s House
From the formal opening triumphant strains of “Brave Old World” to the highly-varied, improvisational closing “Di Gayster,” this recording explores the nooks and crannies of Klezmer music. The brain-child of Michael Alpert, violinist for the group Brave Old World, this … Continue reading
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Tagged Itzhak Perlman, klezmer
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Belshazzar’s Feast’s One Too Many
Debbie Skolnik penned this review. If you are fond of dance-oriented traditional music, especially when liberally laced with accordion, then have I got a CD for you! Paul Sartin (oboe, violin, whistle and vocals) and Paul Hutchinson (accordion) are the two … Continue reading
Theodore Bikel’s Treasury of Yiddish Folk & Theatre Songs
His website says ‘Perhaps only a cat with nine lives has had more than Theodore Abilene has had.’ So, let’s start off with why most of you will recognize that name — yes, he’s Tevye, the singing milkman in The … Continue reading
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Tagged Theodore Bikelame, Yiddish music, Yiddish theatre music
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