Joe Broughton’s Conservatoire Folk Ensemble
A track on a folk album led by a bassoon! That’s a rare pleasure. In ‘Hole in the Wall/Nabo’, the...
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: October/2021
Maddy Prior with Hannah James & Giles Lewin
This is a true meeting of generations. Maddy Prior has a 40-year career behind her. Violinist and piper Giles Lewin...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: March/2013
Since winning his first singing prize back in 1970, Diego Clavel has steadily gained an admiring audience both inside Spain's...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: June/2015
Nowhere has master mandolinist Thile’s formidable artistry been more fully realized than on Laysongs. Urged on by Nonesuch Records honcho...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: July/2021
There is something about discovering one's native tongue after a brief fling abroad with a foreign language. Whether out of...
Reviewed by Robert Rigney in issue: March/2023
Sia Tolno was born in Freetown, Sierra Leone. Life for her was no bed of roses: her father was a...
Reviewed by Peter Culshaw in issue: Aug/Sep/2014
Bekkas has been a Gnawa fusion artist for more than three decades, founding his Gnaoua Blues Band back in 1990,...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: December/2022
English accordionist and circus performer Faith Elliott loved Balkan music so much that several years ago she landed in Serbia,...
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: June/2016
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