Reviews
The Elusive Highland Beauty
With their debut funded by a Kickstarter campaign, The Elephant Sessions describe themselves as a ‘neo-trad quintet forged in the...
Reviewed in issue Nov/Dec/2014
Kathryn Tickell & The Side
The brilliant Northumbrian piper Kathryn Tickell has worked with classical musicians before, composing for the Nash Ensemble, percussionist Joanna MacGregor...
Reviewed in issue Nov/Dec/2014
Operette
Marseille's favourite sons, Moussu T e lei Jovents, finally get round to their town's classic traditions. Marseille's operette music hall...
Reviewed in issue Nov/Dec/2014
Cambridge Folk Festival: Celebrating 50 Years
Not, as you might have supposed, a track from each year of the Cambridge Folk Festival's 50-year history, but a...
Reviewed in issue Nov/Dec/2014
Stories Still Untold
Ewan McLennan continues his evolution into a major figure on the Scottish folk scene with his third album. Stories Still...
Reviewed in issue Nov/Dec/2014
What's Here What's Gone
Since releasing his debut album as a melodeon player back in 1994 aged just 17, Daniels been an in-demand player...
Reviewed in issue Nov/Dec/2014
Seavaigers
Composer Sally Beamish originally approached Shetland fiddler Chris Stout and Dundee-born harpist Catriona McKay (who also work together in Fiddlers’...
Reviewed in issue Nov/Dec/2014
New Road
It's been 11 years since Barry released his first solo album and in that time the north Kerry piper has...
Reviewed in issue Nov/Dec/2014
Sam Sweeney's Fiddle: Made in the Great War
In 2008, Sam Sweeney bought a new instrument – at least, it appeared to be new. But a label inside...
Reviewed in issue Nov/Dec/2014
At the Stringsmith's Forge
The traditional reels, jigs and strathspeys from Scotland, Ireland and Cape Breton Island in Nova Scotia that informed Skyhook's first...
Reviewed in issue Nov/Dec/2014
