Reviews

I Dreamt I Was a Bird

Lucy Ward

The Derby folk singer's third album follows the politically engaged Single Flame and builds on the traditional and original songs...

Reviewed in issue December/2015

Remembering

Ross Ainslie

Remembering is a curious mix. Mostly made up of self-penned songs, the album marks a new direction for Ross Ainslie...

Reviewed in issue December/2015

Wick to Wickham

Gordon Gunn

Best known as a member of the fiddle-led supergroup Session A9, Scottish fiddler and composer Gordon Gunn has not recorded...

Reviewed in issue December/2015

AH!

Trad.Attack!

Trad.Attack! is the latest group to combine traditional folk music styles with a contemporary approach. Formed by a trio of...

Reviewed in issue December/2015

Nomadism

Vołosi

Vołosi are a five-piece string band from the south of Poland, whose profile has been rising ever since winning Polish...

Reviewed in issue November/2015

From Here

Stick in the Wheel

Every couple of years or so, a really good punk band comes along to remind everyone what's really important: saying...

Reviewed in issue November/2015

In Galway

Sharon Shannon & Alan Connor

The most recent studio albums by the genre-defying Sharon Shannon, such as Saints and Scoundrels and Flying Circus, have found...

Reviewed in issue November/2015

Fryd

SVER

SVER describe themselves as ‘Norwegian folk music with relentless energy and seductive spark!’ It's the kind of phrase that usually...

Reviewed in issue November/2015

Espiral

La Jose

Since shaking off the nationalism of the Franco era, flamenco has looked in many directions to reclaim its roots and...

Reviewed in issue November/2015

Watershed

Phillip Henry & Hannah Martin

This duo have made a big impact on the British folk scene – so much so that it feels strange...

Reviewed in issue November/2015