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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
Sound bites: Fiddles, folksongs and a little jazz
The CDs awaiting review are piling up on all my indoor horizontal surfaces, the way the snow was drifting outside the door a short while ago. There’s only one thing to do with drifting snow or gathering CDs – clear … Continue reading
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Tagged Celtic folk music, Jazz music, Quebecois
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Eric Brace & Karl Straub’s Hangtown Dancehall
Nashville’s Eric Brace has teamed up with fellow singer-songwriter Karl Straub to write a “folk opera” based on the story behind “Sweet Betsy From Pike,” one of the most durable folk songs to come out of the California Gold Rush. … Continue reading
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Tagged American folk music, Americana music
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Ensemble Denada’s Windfall
Ensemble Denada is the creation of Norwegian composer and trombonist Helge Sunde. It’s a 15-piece orchestra whose music falls under the rubric of jazz, in much the same way that Frank Zappa’s music was considered rock — an arbitrary category … Continue reading
John Coltrane’s Afro Blue Impressions
This two-CD set marks the 50th anniversary of the dates on which this live disc was recorded, and the 40th anniversary of the founding of the Pablo Records label on which it was eventually released. The recording captures John Coltrane’s … Continue reading
Katayoun Goudarzi and Shujaat Husain Khan: Spring
It’s winter here in the Northern Hemisphere, but one of the most beautiful musical releases of the past few months is called Spring. It’s a collaboration between an Indian sitar master and a Persian-American singer that sets to music the … Continue reading
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Tagged world music
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Stefan Aeby Trio’s Utopia
The Stefan Aeby Trio explores the possibilities of the jazz trio with its own Northern European, somewhat minimalist aesthetic. On Utopia, the trio’s second release, that aesthetic exhudes a wicked technical proficiency that is never flaunted for its own sake, … Continue reading
Various artists’ Divided & United – The Songs of the Civil War
It’s hard to overstate just what an extraordinary musical collection Divided & United, The Songs Of The Civil War is. The United States has been marking the 150th anniversary of its Civil War for the past three years. And in … Continue reading
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Tagged American folk music
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Celtic Colours’ In Good Company and Pipers’ Ceilidh
The final two days of the 2013 Celtic Colours International Festival were a whirlwind of activity — for us, anyway. On Friday we took a short trip along part of the Cabot Trail and a tiny section of the Cape … Continue reading
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Celtic Colours’ Louisbourg Crossroads
I headed off for this mid-week show with expectations that were not very high. Just goes to show how wrong you can be! By the end of the night, nay by the midpoint, it had become my favorite memory (so … Continue reading
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Tagged Celtic Colours International Festival, Celtic music, Rock and Reel
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Celtic Colours’ Far Flung Fiddles
The Cape Breton supergroup called Beòlach was the headliner at a show called “Far Flung Fiddles” at the Judique Community Center in Judique, Nova Scotia, on the evening of the third full day of the 17th annual Celtic Colours International … Continue reading
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