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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)
Tag Archives: Celtic music
Keympa’s Reviralo and Cucanandy’s Contented Minds
Celtic music can be found in some surprising places. Spain, for instance, and North Carolina. Spain’s Galicia region is home to some curiously dislocated vestiges of Celtic culture and music. From Llan de Cubel, which hews pretty closely to the … Continue reading
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Wicked Tinkers’ Loud
I would love to hear what the comedian and once upon-a-time folk singer Billy Connolly would have to say about the playing of the Corn Na Lliran (Bronze Age Irish horn) and didgeridoo on the aptly named opening track ‘Bog’ … Continue reading
The Cottars’ Made in Cape Breton
The Cottars are four youngsters, two brother-sister pairs, from Cape Breton Island. At the time they made this CD, Ciarán and Fiona MacGillivray were 13 and 11 years old, respectively. They both sing, stepdance and play several instruments. Their father … Continue reading
Julie Murphy’s Lilac Tree
Julie Murphy has produced a singular CD that rises above the folk singer-songwriter genre to make an intimate artistic statement. Best known for her interpretations of traditional material, including Welsh folksongs, the North London-born Murphy has worked with such diverse … Continue reading
The Skagen Festival, Skagen, Denmark, 27-30 June 2002.
Skagen is a town in the far north of Denmark, in fact as far north you can go in that country, situated at the top of the Danish peninsula Jutland, where two seas, the Skagerack and the Kattegat, meet. Skagen … Continue reading
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KGB’s Contra-Intelligence and Volga Notions, and Bag o’ Tricks/Tricky Brits’ Bag o’ Tricks/Tricky Brits
These three CDs by three … well, four inter-related Seattle, Wash., bands present a lively sample of contemporary contradance music. KGB is a trio of Julie King, Claude Ginsburg and Dave Bartley, and takes its name from the initials of … Continue reading
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Helen Bell’s Audierne
Audierne is a charming record of traditional and contemporary instrumental music with a Celtic flair. Helen Bell plays viola — an instrument you don’t hear every day, much less in Celtic music — as well as violin, recorder and whistles, … Continue reading
Bag o’ Cats’ Out of the Bag
Out of the Bag is a mixed bag of loosely Celtic-based instrumental World music. This Scottish quintet blends a number of disparate musical elements into an effective musical melange. Elements in the mix include Indian strings and percussion, Scottish pipes, … Continue reading
Heather Alexander’s Wanderlust, Life’s Flame, and Midsummer
This isn’t an easy set of reviews to write. You see, though Ms. Alexander doesn’t know it, her music and I have something of a history. It all dates back to high school, I’d say. I was young, foolish, and … Continue reading
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Wicked Tinkers’ Hammered and Wicked Tinkers
As Big Earl writes in his review of “Mississippi” John Hurt’s Rediscovered, “Do you want the long review or the short one? Here’s the short: Do yourself a favour, go out and buy this disc. Right now.” The same applies … Continue reading