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- A Kinrowan Estate story: puppeteers, and their puppets
- 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
- A Kinrowan Estate story: A Unified Theory of Libraries (A Letter to Anna)
- What’s New for the 29th of March: Beer and spirits, in song and text, some new Scandinavian fiddle music and jazz flute music, and more
- A Kinrowan Estate story: A Ghostly Librarian
- What’s New for the 15th of March: some DeLint stories for early spring; lots of polskas, Serbian folk rock, progressive jazz, and Nordic music from the archives
- A Kinrowan Estate story: Hedge Witches
- What’s New for the 1st of March: Emma Bull’s War for The Oaks, Rosanne Cash’s ‘Runaway Train’, Johnny Cash at San Quentin, plus new Americana and jazz music
- A Kinrorwan Estate story: Cranachanh
- What’s New for the 15th of February: Some Seanan McGuire fantasy, Alison Bechdel’s latest, Pamela Dean’s Tam Lin; Nordic sounds, old time, Americana and Tex-Mex music
Category Archives: Music
Danko-Fjeld-Andersen’s One More Shot
Rick Danko, expatriate Canadian from the Band; Jonas Fjeld, Norwegian folk singer; and Eric Andersen, American songwriter, first joined forces in 1991. They released a stunning debut album which is now re-issued as One More Shot. Appleseed has made the … Continue reading
Fiddlers 4’s Fiddlers 4
The string quartet has been a popular instrumental ensemble for some 300 years now, and it’s easy to see why. It lends itself to many different kinds of music, and presents enough potential variety in arrangements to keep things interesting. … Continue reading
Joan Baez, The Oregon Amphitheater, Albany, Oregon – August 17, 2002
Joan Baez’s voice has been her blessing and her curse, in a career that has now entered its fifth decade. Her crystalline, near-operatic soprano was startling in its purity and power through most of her career, but it also sometimes … Continue reading
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Various artists’ Rough Guide to the Music of the Himalayas, Rough Guide to the Music of the Alps, and Rough Guide to the Music of the Appalachians
“High lonesome” is a term coined to describe the bluegrass sound popularized by Bill Monroe, but it aptly describes the outlook of anyone who lives in the mountains. At first glance, the music of the Himalayas, Alps and Appalachians might … Continue reading
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Caitlin Cary’s While You Weren’t Looking
This is Caitlin Cary‘s first full-length CD since she struck out on her own after the demise of the highly regarded alt-country band Whiskeytown. Cary sings and plays fiddle on all 13 tracks on this CD and its companion single, … Continue reading
The Cottars’ Made in Cape Breton
The Cottars are four youngsters, two brother-sister pairs, from Cape Breton Island. At the time they made this CD, Ciarán and Fiona MacGillivray were 13 and 11 years old, respectively. They both sing, stepdance and play several instruments. Their father … Continue reading
Julie Murphy’s Lilac Tree
Julie Murphy has produced a singular CD that rises above the folk singer-songwriter genre to make an intimate artistic statement. Best known for her interpretations of traditional material, including Welsh folksongs, the North London-born Murphy has worked with such diverse … Continue reading
The Skagen Festival, Skagen, Denmark, 27-30 June 2002.
Skagen is a town in the far north of Denmark, in fact as far north you can go in that country, situated at the top of the Danish peninsula Jutland, where two seas, the Skagerack and the Kattegat, meet. Skagen … Continue reading
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Linda Thompson’s Fashionably Late
Linda Thompson still has all of the qualities that made her one of the most striking voices in English folk-rock in the 1970s and ’80s. Her new CD, her first recording in 17 years, puts all that’s best about her … Continue reading
Jaak Johanson & Mart Johanson’s Põhja Vahemäng/Nordic Interlude and Johanson & Vennad’s Päevakera/Globus Diei
The Johanson family of Talinn, Estonia, have been making music for more than two decades. In the tradition of singer-songwriters the world over, they combine traditional material with their own songs and tunes, often using poems from their own and … Continue reading
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