by simon291122 | Oct 6, 2026 | Features
With a musical appreciation fuelled by wanderlust and desire to fuse Highland Scots music with ever widening and progressive influences Shooglenifty have been regularly journeying off map for three and a half decades, winning new friends and devotees at every turn....
by simon291122 | Oct 3, 2026 | Reviews
One for autumn evenings sitting by the fire with a glass of red wine. ‘Wave’ delivers whispered intimacy over minimal arrangements, chiefly Cure and her guitar though there are others involved, what they contribute is breathy or drifting, gliding key fills...
by simon291122 | Oct 2, 2026 | Features
With many festivals cutting back, taking time out to re-establish in a new format or in some cases packing up altogether, Shrewsbury Folk Festival grows a pace with a bill as wide as a desert horizon, comfortable in its identity and Show Ground home. The only...
by simon291122 | Sep 26, 2026 | Reviews
The connection between nature and folk song is all too often – the odd number about fox hunting apart – bright May mornings hearing larks trilling over head as the plough boy begins his day. Well, plough boys aren’t around in great numbers these...
by simon291122 | Sep 23, 2026 | Reviews
Country rock was born out of the fantasy and mythology of the old west and if you think about it the only place that it could have started was the west coast of California. The 1960s saw the major record companies relocating operations there, seduced by the climate...
