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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
Will Beeley’s 1970 Sessions
Will Beeley has spent the past three decades and change as a long-haul trucker, but before that he was a Texas troubadour. Born in California, raised in San Antonio, he was a singer-songwriter who soaked up the works of singer … Continue reading
Eli West’s Tapered Point of Stone
The late great John Hartford’s legacy continues to resonate down the generations of American roots music. Washington State’s Eli West points to Hartford’s example of making collaborative music in his own fine new album Tapered Point of Stone. The music … Continue reading
Frode Haltli’s Avant Folk II
I’ve been enamored of the music of Norwegian accordionist Frode Haltli since he appeared as one third of the Snowflake Trio at Celtic Colours International Festival in 2013. In that group he, Irish flautist and singer Nuala Kennedy, and Norwegian … Continue reading
Chester Folk Festival, May 2006
Although it is called the Chester Folk Festival, this event is held 10 miles outside of Chester in the quite picturesque village of Kelsall. As festivals go, Chester Festival may not be biggest, but it must surely take the prize … Continue reading
Various artists’ Folk Music Of China, Vol. 11: Folk Songs Of The Dai And Hani Peoples
Naxos World Music continues its series of releases covering the vast and varied folk songs of China. On Volume 11 they present folk songs of two quite different peoples and traditions in the far south of China. The Dai and … Continue reading
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Tagged world music
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Sakili’s Creole Sounds from the Indian Ocean
With the opening strains of the first track of this album, “Ma Ninine,” I’m hearing something that reminds me of the Cajun and Creole music of Louisiana. Francis Prosper, one of two lead vocalists in Sakili, belts out a strident … Continue reading
Melissa Carper’s Daddy’s Country Gold
Melissa Carper grew up listening to classic country music – Hank, Patsy, Johnny, Kitty, Loretta and the like – and the past few years she’s been making various kinds of Americana music herself. She and her girlfriend, fiddler Rebecca Patek, … Continue reading
ShooDJa-ChooDJa’s Shooldyrak
This amazing, mesmerizing debut recording called Shooldyrak by the techno-folk duo ShooDJa-ChooDJa is a wonderful example of the way music can open up the world for you. ShooDJa-ChooDJa are from Udmurtia, a forested Russian republic in the Volga district, the … Continue reading
Ilkka Heinonen Trio’s Lohtu (Solace)
Finnish musician and composer Ilkka Heinonen plays the jouhikko, a bowed version of the kantele, a box lyre or zither common in Karelian dance music of Finland and Russia. In this album Lohtu (Solace) he has made a recording that … Continue reading
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Tagged early music, Jazz music, Nordic music
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Vivian Leva & Riley Calcagno’s Vivian Leva & Riley Calcagno
Vivian Leva grew up in rural Appalachia outside Lexington, Virginia, but now the daughter of celebrated old-time musicians lives in Portland, Oregon, where she and her partner Riley Calcagno now live and make music. I predicted greater things coming on … Continue reading
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Tagged Americana music
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