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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
The Clumsy Lovers’ Barnburner
The Clumsy Lovers play raucous, uptempo Celtic-based rock with all kinds of Pacific Rim influences. Based in the Vancouver, B.C., area, the Lovers incorporate Californian and Hawaiian folk-rock, reggae and ska into their lively musical brew. The band writes much … Continue reading
Various Latvian artists, Sol de Nit, Eric Montbel, and Storvan: An omnibus bagpipe review
Various artists’ Dudas Latvija (Latvian Bagpipes) Sol de Nit’s B-91 00-SN Eric Montbel’s Chabretas les cornemuse a miriors du Limousin Storvan’s Digor ‘N Abadenn and An deiziou kaer Not surprisingly, my CD collection holds much more than just Irish, Scottish, … Continue reading
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Bill Lamey’s Full Circle
Bill Lamey is one of the best-known and most influential Cape Breton Island fiddlers in the world — to other Scottish-style fiddlers. Rounder has brought Lamey’s music, previously known mostly to other fiddlers and those lucky enough to have heard … Continue reading
Lunasa, The Majestic Theater, Corvallis, Oregon, May 10, 2000
Lunasa was introduced to the 230 fans at the Majestic Theater as “one of the hottest Celtic bands” performing in the world today. But on this unseasonably cool spring evening, frontman and flutist Kevin Crawford said “we’re the coldest band … Continue reading
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Theresa Morrison’s Laments and Merry Melodies from Cape Breton Island
If you love traditional Scottish fiddle music and don’t have an aunt, uncle or grandparent who’ll come over to your house and play it for you, this recording is the next best thing. Laments and Merry Melodies is part of … Continue reading
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Jimmy Young’s Pipeworks
Patrick O’Donnell wrote this review. There probably is no sound more associated with Celtic music than that of the pipes. They’re heard at almost every Celtic festival, on St. Patrick’s Day, and in movie soundtracks ranging from “Rob Roy” and … Continue reading
Moebius’s August: New Music for Three Bagpipes
Brendan Foreman wrote this review for Folk Tales. I may be wrong here, but it occurs to me that piping music written for six hands, i.e., three pipers, is not the most common music in the world. In fact, most … Continue reading
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Hiring Fair’s Breakfast Anyone?
There is a big difference between live music and recorded music. In live music, you are very much dependent on the atmosphere created during the performance. Good live music is created together with the audience, and you play on their … Continue reading
Jennifer White’s Clarsach
In general, harp recordings can capture a good bit of the enchantment of the instrument, but rarely do they come close to the magic of hearing a live harp performance. Jennifer White’s Clarsach sounds more like sitting in someone’s living … Continue reading