Reviews
While I Sit and Watch This Tree Vol 2
Born in Romania, but now based in Scotland, Lizabett Russo is a singer-songwriter influenced by Western and Romanian traditional styles,...
Reviewed in issue December/2022
Love Hurts
Finnish folk quartet ENKEL return with their third studio album, a mix of traditional and contemporary numbers. All four women...
Reviewed in issue December/2022
DanSando
For her sixth album, Portuguese singer-songwriter Luísa Sobral wanted to release ‘an ode to life’ – a drop of medicine...
Reviewed in issue December/2022
Unquenching Fire
As soon as you see the names Miranda Sykes and Hannah Martin together you’re excited. They have two of the...
Reviewed in issue December/2022
No More the Green Hills
‘She Moves Through the Fair’, ‘As I Roved Out’, ‘Johnny, My Man’… Janice Burns and Jon Doran have chosen some...
Reviewed in issue December/2022
Queen of the Whirl
Eliza Carthy & The Restitution
‘I've given blow jobs on couches to men who don't want me anymore’ – that first line of Eliza Carthy's...
Reviewed in issue December/2022
Clare Sands
Galway-born multi-instrumentalist and vocalist Clare Sands has been making a name for herself on the Irish and international live circuit...
Reviewed in issue December/2022
The Coast Road
Elizabeth Davidson-Blythe & Daniel Quayle
Boston-born fiddler Elizabeth Davidson-Blythe and bouzouki, guitar and piano player Daniel Quayle from the Isle of Man first began playing...
Reviewed in issue December/2022
Tradition II
Ranagri are an Anglo-Irish four-piece combining vocals, guitars, bouzouki, flute, whistle, harp, bodhrán and drums, its name drawn from the...
Reviewed in issue December/2022
