Reviews
Live in Shetland
For her fourth solo album, Shetland fiddle player Jenna Reid teams up with three of her long-standing collaborators for a...
Reviewed in issue June/2015
Shift
Shift, the debut album from Borders-born Kirsty Law, is a fine example of the plentiful talent burgeoning from Edinburgh's session...
Reviewed in issue June/2015
Fiesta Gitana con Camarón y sus Amigos
Camarón de la Isla was the superstar of post-war flamenco – he had the looks of Mick Jagger, lifestyle of...
Reviewed in issue June/2015
Gràs
Hailing from the windswept Outer Hebridean island of South Uist, MacInnes is one of the finest singers in the Gaelic...
Reviewed in issue June/2015
Welcome Joy and Welcome Sorrow
The folk quartet Spiro rework English dance tunes under the aegis of minimalism and systems music; these are tunes that...
Reviewed in issue June/2015
Jara en el Camino
Catalonia's relationship with the rest of Spain is complicated, to say the least. There are many Catalonians who view themselves...
Reviewed in issue Apr/May/2015
Little Lights
Robertson is a harpist of high renown, having won all manner of prizes for her virtuosic clàrsach (Celtic harp) playing....
Reviewed in issue Apr/May/2015
Another Man's Ground
The fourth studio album from the Teesside folk trio is their very own War and Peace. With an epic sweep...
Reviewed in issue Apr/May/2015
Avgi: Live in Heraklion Walls
Lyra virtuoso Stelios Petrakis is one of several talented young musicians to have emerged from the teaching and performance workshops...
Reviewed in issue Apr/May/2015
The Fade in Time
Sam Lee has wandered throughout the UK and Ireland learning songs, and how to sing them, from travellers and Gypsies,...
Reviewed in issue Apr/May/2015
