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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
Kodo’s Live at Symphony Center, 2/21/11
“Symphony Center” is what, after renovations and expansion, they now call Chicago’s Orchestra Hall. And it would seem an ideal venue for Kodo: a relatively intimate space (I said “relatively”), almost perfect acoustics, excellent sightlines from almost anywhere in the … Continue reading
Kodo’s Akatsuki
Once upon a time, when I was younger and lived, possibly, more completely in the world of art than I do now, I went with some friends to Chicago’s then newly refurbished Auditorium Theater to see the Kodo Drummers, as … Continue reading
Enrico Rava Quartet with Gianluca Petrella’s Wild Dance
“Wild” doesn’t necessarily mean fast or crazed, as Italian trumpeter and bandleader Enrico Rava and his four companions demonstrate on Wild Dance. The bulk of the pieces on this date are slow to medium tempo, modal or modernist excursions into … Continue reading
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Tagged Jazz music
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Mari Boine’s Eight Seasons and Remixed
Mari Boine is one of the many artists brought to American audiences by way of Northside. These recordings were originally released by Lean in 2001 and 2002 and licensed by Northside for USA release in 2003. Boine is the embodiment of … Continue reading
Johnny Cunningham and others’ peter & wendy
A rich montage of songs and sounds combine to bring the listener to the world of Neverland to retell the story of Peter Pan and Wendy. This music was used in a theatrical production of Peter Pan, using puppetry, light, … Continue reading
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Tagged Children's literature
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Philip Glass And Robert Moran’s Juniper Tree Opera
Anyone who has visited the KInrowan Estate library knows that I’m always playing something for music here unless the Neverending Session is visiting us to grace us with their lovely music. And of course, I love good design that catches my … Continue reading
XIXA’s Shift and Shadow EP
XIXA, a new group out of Tucson, Arizona, plays music known as chicha. Chicha started as a working-class form of cumbia, using cumbia’s rhythm but largely played in Andean-style pentatonic scales and incorporating electric “rock” instruments and a host of … Continue reading
Bela Bartok and Albert B. Lord’s Yugoslav Folk Music, Volumes 1-4
Brendan Foreman wrote this review for Folk Tales. It may be a little hard to believe, but, were it not for the work of Bartok and those of his generation, the current folk music industry would probably be a completely … Continue reading
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Gothard Sisters’ Christmas
Yes, it’s that time of year again. When all background music in the supermarkets changes, and the refuse collectors (looking for their Christmas tip), start to speak to you and make a point of leaving your empty bin outside your … Continue reading
What’s New for the 6th of January: del Toro: Pan’s Labyrinth, Yugoslav folk music, Richard and Linda Thompson doing trad Irish music, Cape Breton music, a wee hedgehog puppet, Finnan hadddie, more chocolate, Armenian folk music, fantasy noir and a lot more!
Whatever happened next, good or bad, it would be wonderful finding out. — Mathew Swift, the Midnight Mayor, in Kate Griffin’s A Madness of Angels Ahhhh, plump pork sausages sizzling in their own fat, eggs any way you like them, palacsinta … Continue reading →