Reviews

Volume II

The Armagh Rhymers

The Armagh Rhymers have been fusing ancient and modern, the mundane and the magical, legend and the life lived since...

Reviewed in issue May/2022

Deò

Beinn Lee

On ‘Anam Saor’, the first single from this, their second album, Uist sextet Beinn Lee talk about finding their place...

Reviewed in issue May/2022

Maiden Voyage

The Silver Darlings

So, 2021’s taste for the sea shanties may be starting to go as stale as a ship’s biscuit, but there...

Reviewed in issue May/2022

Varka

Dafné Kritharas | DafnÉ Kritharas

It needs to be said at the outset that Dafné Kritharas has a fantastic voice, it has a clear, pure...

Reviewed in issue April/2022

Whistle Walks

Terry Clarke-Coyne

Liverpool-born to Irish parents, whistle player Terry Clarke-Coyne spent the pandemic recording more than 150 virtual duets for YouTube with...

Reviewed in issue April/2022

Aistear

Aisling Lyons

Evidence that Aisling Lyons is the finest young Irish harpist at work today comes in the eight-time All-Ireland champion’s debut...

Reviewed in issue April/2022

Picker’s Dream

James Rigby

Liverpool based fingerstyle guitarist James Rigby’s playing is undoubtedly precise and technically spot on, as he demonstrates throughout 16 sunny,...

Reviewed in issue April/2022

Janus

Hardanger fiddle player Annbjørg Lien has long been putting her instrument on the international map. She first recorded aged 12...

Reviewed in issue April/2022

When Summer Comes Again

Simon Mayor & Hilary James

This is Simon Mayor and Hilary James’s lockdown album; with no concerts to play they turned to favourite songs and...

Reviewed in issue April/2022

Dawn

Talisk

Headed by the charismatic Mohsen Amini on concertina, the blistering Talisk have been taking the Scottish folk scene by storm...

Reviewed in issue April/2022