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- What’s New for the 26th of July:
- 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
- What’s New for the 1st of February: Kage Baker retrospective; new Americana, Buddhist chants and Finnish songs, new and reissued jazz, and more
- A Kinrowan Estate story: Fireplaces in Kinrowan Hall
- What’s New for the 18th of January: World music and fiction by Amal El-Mohtar
- A Kinrowan Estate story: Bridges and Paths plus a Troll
Tag Archives: Celtic music
Sweet Megg’s Massive Negroni, The Milk Carton Kids’ Lost Cause Lover Fool, Foresta’s Esclat de Maig, and Tanasi’s Tanasi
Sweet Megg grew up as Megg Farrell in New York City, came up singing folk music in the bars and coffee houses of the East Village and Brooklyn, studied jazz singing in Paris, did a stint in Cirque du Soleil, … Continue reading
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Tagged Americana music, Celtic music, Jazz music, world music
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Jennifer and Hazel Wrigley’s Mither o’the Sea
Richard wrote this for Folk Tales. I have been interested in the traditional music of the British Isles for more than 35 years and have grown older listening to the work of musicians who were already well known to the … Continue reading
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Tagged Celtic music, orkney islands
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Ceili Rain’s Say ‘KAY-Lee’
Rebecca Swain wrote this review. I like this Christian Celtic album very much (it is also available under the name Ceili Rain.) It is cheerful, enthusiastic, and well-crafted. Those people who are more comfortable with a bleak, cynical view of … Continue reading
Brìghde Chaimbeul’s Sunwise
Along with a lot of other reviewers and critics, I was very favorably impressed with Brìghde Chaimbeul’s previous album, her second, Carry Them With Us but this one didn’t immediately click with me. Now that the days are shorter, darker, … Continue reading
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Tagged Bagpipes, Celtic music, Scottish smallpipes
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Alistair McCulloch’s Highly Strung
Naomi de Bruyn wrote this review. If you like fiddling and Celtic music, then you’ll like this first release by Alistair McCulloch, although the material is not all Celtic in origin and a great deal of it is original. Highly … Continue reading
Various artists’ Rogue’s Gallery
I’ve never considered myself a particular fan of sea chanteys, but this collection just may make a convert of me. When I read the press release from Anti- earlier this year, I was immediately intrigued by the project, not least … Continue reading
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Tagged Americana music, Celtic music, pirates, sea chanteys, sea songs
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Mick McAuley & Winifred Horan’s Serenade
Samantha Gillogly wrote this review. As two-fifths of the Celtic superstar band Solas, accordion player Mick McAuley and fiddler Winifred Horan have for years rocked the traditional music scene with their power and precision. In 2005 the two decided to … Continue reading
Karen Matheson’s Time To Fall
Judith Gennett wrote this review. Those whose ears were open to Celtic music in the ’80s will remember those wonderful Capercaillie LPs: great Scottish dance music dividing the high points of Karen Matheson‘s beautiful vocals. Some songs were traditional Gaelic, … Continue reading
Matapat’s Petit Fou
Big Earl Sellar wrote this review. Of the many beautiful regional musics that exist in my native Canada, one of my absolute favourites is traditional Quebecois music. (Incidentally, my number one choice is a variation of this genre, the Metis … Continue reading
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Tagged Celtic music, folk music, quebecois music, world music
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Bourque, Bernard & Lepage’s Matapat
Naomi de Bruyn wrote this review. Bourque, Bernard & Lepage provide something not often seen or heard in a professional group: a foot percussionist. In fact, Benoit Bourque is one of Canada’s finest step dancers. He also uses his feet, … Continue reading
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Tagged Celtic music, folk music, quebecois music
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