Traditional fiddlers Liz and Yvonne Kane are sisters from Letterfrack, a small village on the wild and scenic coast of Connemara, in County Galway. They released their third album Side by Side in July 2010, and kindly sent me a review copy all the way from Ireland. This record deserves attention as a brilliant example [...]
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The Kane Sisters: Side by Side (MP3)
Posted in acoustic, Celtic, fiddle, Irish, traditional, tagged acoustic, Celtic, fiddle, flute, Irish, traditional on August 18, 2011 | 3 Comments »
Grada: Natural Angle (MP3)
Posted in acoustic, Celtic, female singer, fiddle, flute, Irish, traditional, world, tagged acoustic, Celtic, female singer, fiddle, flute, Irish, singer-songwriter, traditional, world on June 22, 2011 | 2 Comments »
From the Better Late Than Never Dept: Here’s a post on Grada’s latest release Natural Angle. I hate it when I’m rummaging through some random pile of desktop detritus and find a CD I should have reviewed a year ago. That’s what happened with Natural Angle, which came out early in 2010. It’s so good [...]
Colleen Raney: Lark (MP3)
Posted in acoustic, Celtic, female singer, festival, flute, Irish, mandolin, Scottish, traditional, tagged acoustic, Celtic, female singer, festival, flute, Irish, mandolin, Scottish, traditional on June 7, 2011 | 1 Comment »
The dark and rainy Pacific Northwest continues to produce an endless stream of brilliant folk music, and it was on display everywere at the recent Northwest Folkife Festival. The seething mass of humanity that is NW Folkife was held recently in downtown Seattle, in the shadow of her famous landmark, the Space Needle. Folkies came [...]
Andy Irvine: Abocurragh (MP3)
Posted in acoustic, bouzouki, Celtic, Irish, male singer, mandolin, singer-songwriter, traditional, tagged acoustic, bouzouki, Celtic, Irish, male singer, mandolin, singer-songwriter, traditional on December 14, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Here it is the end of the year and yet there remains a pile of great folk recordings on my desk, all from 2010, just begging to be reviewed. One of the best of these is Abocurragh from legendary Irish folk singer Andy Irvine. Produced by his ex-Planxty bandmate Donal Lunny, it’s his first solo [...]
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