Reviews

Louder Than Words

The Henry Girls

After playing together as The Henry Girls for more than a decade, sisters Karen, Lorna and Joleen McLaughlin from County...

Reviewed in issue July/2014

The Moral of the Elephant

Martin & Eliza Carthy

We’ve heard them together in Waterson:Carthy, but this is the first time father and daughter have recorded as a duo,...

Reviewed in issue July/2014

In a Box

Megson

The name of husband-and-wife duo Megson is now familiar on the English folk circuit. Their first studio album in four...

Reviewed in issue July/2014

Music from Romania

VARIOUS ARTISTS

These recordings were made by the celebrated musicologist Deben Bhattacharya in 1965, the year Nicolae Ceauşescu came to power. It...

Reviewed in issue July/2014

Live at 10: The 10th Anniversary Concert

Beoga

A decade after their debut album, County Antrim's Beoga are celebrating with a lively and satisfyingly long anniversary CD and...

Reviewed in issue July/2014

House of Jacks

Blair Dunlop

Frontman for the Albion Band and winner of a BBC Radio 2 Horizon Folk Award in 2013, Dunlop brings a...

Reviewed in issue July/2014

Inter-Celtic

Carlos Núñez

Is Galician piper Carlos Núñez the most enthusiastic, optimistic, energetic musician on earth? From the first blow on this 16-track...

Reviewed in issue July/2014

Gipsy Rhumba

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Andalucía's connection with Gypsy culture via flamenco is famous. Less well-known is the emergence, during the early 1960s, of a...

Reviewed in issue July/2014

No 2 Greepe

The Campbells of Greepe

This is the second album from the Campbells of Greepe – hailed as one of the great singing families in...

Reviewed in issue July/2014

Thamesis

Mishaped Pearls

If you like your folk music sophisticated, self-confident and highly original, read on. The third album from this über-cool London...

Reviewed in issue July/2014