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- 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
- A Kinrowan Estate story: A Unified Theory of Libraries (A Letter to Anna)
Category Archives: Music
Buddy MacMaster’s Cape Breton Tradition
Pat Simmonds wrote this review. The Cape Breton Island fiddling tradition is getting quite the press coverage of late. Surely one of the last strongholds of traditional fiddling in North America, its popularity has been growing in leaps and bounds. … Continue reading
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Natalie MacMaster’s Yours Truly
Natalie MacMaster is well on the way to becoming the Alison Krauss of Cape Breton Island. By that I mean that she is taking the traditional music of her homeland and putting a slightly modern, NPR-friendly spin on it that … Continue reading
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Natalie MacMaster’s Fit As A Fiddle
Naomi de Bruyn wrote this review. Natalie is something of a well-known personage in Canada, being one of the most prominent fiddlers – perhaps the most famous woman fiddler – to ever come out of Cape Breton. Natalie grew up … Continue reading
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Natalie MacMaster’s My Roots are Showing
Natalie MacMaster is blessed with extraordinary talent – nurtured by a musical family and honed through fiddle competitions. She is also possessed of perky blonde good looks that seem to cause many a young folkie’s brain to shift into neutral … Continue reading
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Natalie MacMaster’s Blueprint
Rick Hayes wrote this review. Natalie MacMaster has effectively moved from the kitchen to the concert hall without missing a beat on her latest CD Blueprint. This collection of tunes is big in a lot of ways. It is big … Continue reading
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Natalie MacMaster’s In My Hands
Chuck Lipsig wrote this review. “Wow!” If I could get away with a one word review of Natalie MacMaster‘s latest CD, In My Hands, that would be it. Usually, when I review a CD, I listen to it one or … Continue reading
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Allison de Groot & Tatiana Hargreaves’ Hurricane Clarice
The coronavirus pandemic of the early ’20s has played a huge role in all kinds of arts and entertainment, which I’m sure scholars will be studying for decades to come. One thing I’ve noticed is that every musician or musical … Continue reading
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Drones & Bellows’ Bothwell
I consider Brian McNeill to be one of the finest musicians ever. And now it turns out that he’s a truly great producer too! Bothwell, the second CD by Danish group Drones & Bellows was produced by Brian and bears … Continue reading
Brian McNeill’s No Gods
Debbie Skolnik wrote this review. It’s serendipitous how sometimes you find a “new” artist via a cover version of a song. In this case, the song was “No Gods and Precious Few Heroes,” which I first heard on Dick Gaughan’s … Continue reading
Brian McNeill and Tom McDonagh’s Horses for Courses
There’s a photo of Brian McNeill getting ready to kiss a horse on the final page of the Horses for Courses liner notes. Or at the very least he’s talking to it in a rather intimate manner. It’s a very … Continue reading
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