Tag Archives: English folk music

The Unthanks’ Diversions Vol. 5 – Live And Unaccompanied

Posted on 11th March 2020 by Gary Whitehouse

Rachel and Becky Unthank grew up in a musical family in Tyneside, North East England, and came up singing unaccompanied traditional folk songs. With Diversions Vol. 5 they’ve come full circle, making their first album of unaccompanied songs as a … Continue reading →

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Norma Waterson & Eliza Carthy’s Anchor

Posted on 18th June 2018 by Gary Whitehouse

The mother-daughter duo of Norma Waterson & Eliza Carthy are members of the first family of English folk music. Although Norma has been recording since the ‘50s and Eliza the ’90s, they hadn’t recorded as a duo until 2010’s award-winning … Continue reading →

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Siobhan Miller’s Strata

Posted on 10th May 2018 by Cat Eldridge

I first encountered Siobhan Miller at Cropredy ten years ago. She was in a duo with Jeana Leslie and together they had won the BBC Radio 2 Young Folk Award that year, and that also gave them a spot at … Continue reading →

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Fairport’s Cropredy Convention, 10-12 August 2017

Posted on 4th September 2017 by Lars Nilsson

(Please note: For various reasons I will not mention all the groups that played this year.) There is some dispute about when the first Cropredy festival took place. The most common view is that it was the farewell concert Fairport … Continue reading →

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Quercus’s Nightfall

Posted on 9th August 2017 by Gary Whitehouse

I was gobsmacked when I came across Quercus’s first, self-titled, album a couple of years after its 2013 release. The combination of June Tabor’s husky-silky delivery of largely traditional songs in a jazz setting that was somehow lush but also … Continue reading →

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Bert Jansch’s Living in the Shadows Part 2, On the Edge of a Dream

Posted on 8th July 2017 by Gary Whitehouse

This is the second installment of a massive archival re-release project of Scottish troubadour Bert Jansch’s latter-day studio recordings. This four-LP or -CD box collects Jansch’s three studio releases from the 2000s: Crimson Moon (2000), Edge of a Dream (2002) … Continue reading →

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Bert Jansch’s Living in the Shadows (Part 1)

Posted on 25th June 2017 by Gary Whitehouse

Bert Jansch, who died in 2011, was quite a prolific musician for quite a long time. I was a rather casual fan of his — well, actually I was an intense fan of one of his albums, and a casual … Continue reading →

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Transatlantic Sessions to perform at 2017 MerleFest

Posted on 10th March 2017 by Gary Whitehouse

The Transatlantic Sessions tour will be part of the 30th anniversary MerleFest in April. The Transatlantic Sessions is a series of musical productions that brings together innovative and iconic U.K. artists with the best American roots artists, under the musical … Continue reading →

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Dylan Project’s Caught in the Convent

Posted on 13th January 2017 by Lars Nilsson

This is pure nostalgia for me. The first review I ever wrote for Green Man Review was a piece on a live performance by the Dylan Project in a small club in Oford, UK. The they were a new act on the … Continue reading →

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Steeleye Span’s Dodgy Bastards

Posted on 2nd December 2016 by Deborah Grabien

I’m just on my third listen to Steeleye Span’s Dodgy Bastards. This latest offering from a band I’ve loved since their earliest albums is a mixed bag. Fortunately, the contents are largely on the side of excellence. There is very … Continue reading →

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