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What’s New for the 27th of September: A tribute to Cape Breton music

Living in Cape Breton, it’s really all about fiddle music, so it’s not like there were other instruments out there that tempted me and it was like I had to decide which one. It was automatically fiddle, because it’s the … Continue reading →

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What’s New for the 14th of September: books and music to see summer out

The lie wasn’t meant to be believed. It was just social grease, intended to keep wheels turning. — Aliette de Bodard’s Fireheart Tiger Ahoy, matey! Gary, music editor, here with another new edition to shiver yer timbers. With International Talk Like … Continue reading →

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What’s New for the 10th of September: It’s Definitely Late Summer!

Summer afternoon – summer afternoon; to me those have alwaysmbeen the two most beautiful words in the English language. –– Henry James The piper at gates of dawn has resumed his or her ritual after taking most of the summer off. Now … Continue reading →

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What’s New for the 30th of August: Dolly Pardon

Storms make trees take deeper roots. — Dolly Pardon Dolly Parton passed on very recently and Gary has a look at some of the albums on which she played an important role;  that’s our entire focus this time so let’s … Continue reading →

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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

Fantasies of violence, Breaking bottles on the wall. Hungry for the motion, for the action, For it all. Cats Laughing  There is no book section this time, well not really, but rather a selection of the reviews but a look … Continue reading →

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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

Maybe there’s something you can learn from being a cat instead of a little girl. — Charles de Lint’s The Cats of Tanglewood Forest Iain here. So winter ends in just six days; sure, tell that to the weather outside. It’s been warm with temperatures … Continue reading →

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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

Under the Earth I go, On the oak leaf I stand. I ride on the filly That was never foaled, And I carry the dead  in my hand Scots trad If Reynard didn’t exist, it would be necessary to invent … Continue reading →

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What’s New for the 18th of January: World music and fiction by Amal El-Mohtar

But that is the nature of grammar—it is always tense, like an instrument, aching for release, longing to transform present into past into future, is into was into will. — Amal El-Mohtar’s The River Has Roots I’ve been listening to the … Continue reading →

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What’s New for 21st of December

There is one story and one story only That will prove worth your telling, Whether as learned bard or gifted child; To it all lines or lesser gauds belong That startle with their shining Such common stories as they stray … Continue reading →

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A Kinrowan Estate story: Pub Ghoulies

From the archives of Sleeping Hedgehog, the in-house journal published here for centuries now. Welcome, laddy-buck. Come in and find a seat here by the fire, and tell me your pleasure! Take a settle; they’re cushioned and wide enough for two, should … Continue reading →

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