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- A Kinrowan Estate story: Kedgeree
- Whats New for the 26th of October: some Patricia McKillip books and an interview, ’70s jazz reissues, Nordic Americana and American Americana, and some Samhain seasonal albums
- A Kinrowan Estate story: Charles and Alice Pay a Visit (A Letter to Owyn)
- What’s New for the 12th of October
- A Kinrowan Estate story: A Pudding Contest
- What’s New for the 28th of September: Appalachia in books, music and more
- A Kinrown Estate story: Autumn is Upon Us
- What’s New for the 14th of September: Books, film and music with a piratical theme; plus Corsican polyphony, Balkan sevdah, Americana music, Hardanger fiddle with reindeer, Latin jazz and piano trios
- A Kinrowan Estate story: Irish Coffee
- New SF from James S. A. Corey; Terry Gillian’s Excalibur; Rolling Stones do Aaron Copland’s ‘A Fanfare for The Common Man’; An offbeat history of coffee; an interview with Russian folk singer Zhenya Wind; and a grab bag of folk music
- A Kinrowan Estate story: Waltzing Matilda
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- A Kinrowan Estate story: A Hidden Dragon
Tag Archives: Celtic music
Haugaard and Hoirup’s Gaestebud/Feast
Danish musicians Harald Haugaard and Morten Alfred Hoirup continue to make beautiful music together on Gaestebud/Feast, their fifth release. This time, they’ve invited a bunch of friends along, and truly created a feast of Nordic (and related) acoustic folk music. … Continue reading
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Tagged Celtic music, Nordic music, world music
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Ruckus & Keir GoGwilt’s The Edinburgh Rollick
The American band Ruckus is billed as “the world’s only period-instrument rock band.” And also as “a shapeshifting collaborative baroque ensemble with a visceral and playful approach to classical music,” and that playful part is definitely born out on their … Continue reading
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Tagged Celtic music, Scottish music
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Alasdair Fraser and Natalie Haas’s Abundance
Scottish fiddler Alasdair Fraser and American cellist Natalie Haas have released their fourth album Abundance on Fraser’s Culburnie label. It is an impressive addition to their catalog and an entertaining tour through some of the many possible settings for Celtic … Continue reading
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The Bridge Ceili Band’s Sparks On Flags
Judith Gennett wrote this review. Most popular in the 1950s, before the Chieftains and others transformed Irish music into performance art, ceili bands are traditional Irish dance bands. According to the liner notes of Sparks On Flags, the original nine … Continue reading
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Quagmyre’s Of Cabbages and Kings
Wendy Donahue wrote this review. Readers outside of Canada might not be familiar with Quagmyre, but may have witnessed the talents of several of the band’s members. In recent years fiddler Jon Pilatzke has been seen playing with well-known Celtic … Continue reading
Halali’s Halali
Pat Simmonds wrote this review. Halali consists of three fiddlers, Hanneke Cassel, Laura Cotese and Lissa Schneckenburger, with Flynn Cohen providing guitar accompaniment. The thriving and bustling session scene in Boston has been bubbling under the surface for a number … Continue reading
Yet another big Celtic music omnibus review by Peter Massey
Carreg Lafar’s Profiad Robin Flower & Libby McLaren’s Steelhead in the Riffles Ken Kolodner’s Journey to the Heartland Various artists’ The Independence Suite Brendan Begley’s We Won’t Go Home Til Morning Rosie Shipley and Matt Mulqueen with Peter and Trevor … Continue reading
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Malinky’s 3 Ravens
Judith Gennett wrote this review “It’s down intae yon green grass field There lies a knight that’s newly killed.” Malinky is an acoustic Scottish band on the rise. Atypical for a Scots bands, they employ Irish box and low whistle … Continue reading
Lissa Schneckenburger’s Dance, and Oliver Schroer and the Stewed Tomatoes’ Freedom Row
Over the past month or so I’ve been cleaning out my home office. I sold a bunch of stuff on-line. A guitar, 450 vinyl records, three boxes of music magazines, and a violin. The violin was incomplete, there was no … Continue reading
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The Saw Doctors’ The Cure
Craig Clarke wrote this review. The Cure is the first studio album from Celtic folk-rockers the Saw Doctors since their 2001 release Villains?, making it only their sixth in 15 years. They have been busy in the meantime, releasing the … Continue reading