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Tag Archives: English folk music
Assembly Players’ A Kynaston Ball, Various artists’ Strange Coincidences in Speciality Tea Trading, Mary Humphreys & Anahata’s Sharp Practice, and Tickled Pink’s Terpsichore Polyhymnia
These four CDs represent things you might hear around the folk clubs, sessions and festivals this summer. There are plenty of people around telling you what you should read this summer, so think of this as your summer listening. The … Continue reading
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Various artists’ This Label is NOT Removable
A Celebration of 25 Years of Free Reed This is a hefty package for the folk fan. Three CDs, three hours and forty-four minutes of music and an eighty-page booklet. Page seven of that booklet offers the following observation: “Many … Continue reading
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Linda Thompson’s Won’t Be Long Now
Add my voice to the chorus that is hailing Linda Thompson’s third solo album of her revived career as a contemporary folk delight. Won’t Be Long Now is an intimate recording featuring many members of her family that masterfully mixes … Continue reading
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Various artists’ Les Barker’s The Stones Of Callanish
Judith Gennett wrote this review. Les Barker, a poet and former accountant, is from Manchester, England. Some of the goofy poems that Barker writes are published in small books, and these goofy verses are read aloud to a sort of … Continue reading
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Brass Monkey’s Flame of Fire
“Against May, Whitsuntide, or other time, all the yung men and maides, olde men and wives, run gadding overnight to the woods, groves, hils and mountaines, where they spend all the night in pleasant pastimes; and in the morning, they … Continue reading
Ben Walker’s Polar Bear, and Another World Away
Ben Walker comes from Stockport, near Manchester, England. Amazingly, he has only been involved playing the Uilleann pipes, guitar and traditional Irish music since about 1995. Previously, he gained at lot of experience playing music for many years, mostly jazz … Continue reading
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Various artists’ Nua Teorainn
Patrick O’Donnell wrote this review. We’ve been taught since birth that change is constant. Each day is followed by a new day, each year by a new year, each bringing something just a little different than before. We’ve also been … Continue reading
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The Skirlers’ Cutting the Bracken
Take Lorraine Kelly and Marion Storey both on fiddles, add Allen Bowling on highland and border pipes, Bob Smith on vocals, mandolin, guitar, tin whistles and bodhran, Chic Judge on highland pipes and vocals, and Tom Docherty on guitar and … Continue reading
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Flying Tomatoes’ Rags to Racenicas, Atomic City Rhythm Rascals’ Atomic City Rhythm Rascals, Birol Topaloglu’s Aravani, Mukka’s Skip Lizard, Pinewoods Band’s South by Southeast, and Stömp’s Machine Without Horses
One cannot live by English and Celtic music alone, so there needs to be music outside those traditions that’s interesting too. For me, that music is that of the Central European region. And what I like best is the dance … Continue reading
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Steeleye Span: A Career Retrospective 1970-2000
Hark The Village Wait (RCA, 1970) Please To See the King (B&C, 1971) Ten Man Mop, or Mr Reservoir Butler Rides Again (Pegasus, 1971) Below the Salt (Chrysalis, 1972) Parcel of Rogues (Chrysalis, 1973) Now We Are Six (Chrysalis, 1974) … Continue reading
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