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Issue 116 is available to buy from our website now. It contains an interview with Vicki Swan & Jonny Dyer, an article on Scottish stalwarts Mairi Campbell & David Francis, a preview of the forthcoming new production of Peter Bellamy's The Transports, an interview with Irish folk hero Andy Irvine, a look at the guitar in British folk music, an article on The Outside Track, a feature on the phenomenon that is Fiddle Singing with some practical tips on how to do it, an interview with Scottish fiddler Ryan Young, an extended feature from the Eire Festival in Bondeno, Italy, a photo-feature from Warwick Folk Festival and an article on the 50 year history of the TMSA. All this plus festival listings, news, reviews and much, much more.
REVIEWS IN ISSUE 116
Roy Bailey - Live At Towersey Festival 2015
Bottle Bank Band - Bottle Bank Band
Si Barron - Of A Myrtle Shade
Eric Bogle With John Munro - Voices
Gwilym Bowen Rhys - O Groth Y Ddaear
Broom Bezzums - No Smaller Than The World
Conor Caldwell & Danny Diamond - North
Jim Causley & Luke Thompson - The Clay Hymnal
Coope, Boyes & Simpson - Coda
Crows - Time To Rise!
Maria Dunn - Gathering
Barbara Dymock - Leaf An' Thorn
Fara - Cross The Line
Marco Fabbri - Crossroads
Vic Gammon & Friends - Early Scottish Ragtime
Gatehouse - Tus Nua
Granny's Attic - Off The Land
Scott Macmillan & Colin Grant - Good 2 Go
Lorcán Mac Mathúna, Martin Tourish, Daire Bracken, Íde Nic Mhathúna, Éamonn Galldubh - Visionaries 1916
The Hayes Sisters - Another Man's Shoes
Home Service - A New Ground
Iontach - A New Journey
Hannah James - Jigdoll
Ralph McTell & Wizz Jones - About Time
Larry Kaplan - Furthermore
Ruth Keggin - Turrys
Nancy Kerr & The Sweet Visitor Band - Instar
Allan MacDonald & Neil Johnstone - The Bruce 700
Andrew Finn Magill - Roots
Lady Maisery - Cycle
Ewan McLennan & George Monbiot - Breaking The Spell Of Lonliness
Methera - Vortex
Reg Meuross - December
Mick, Louise & Michelle Mulcahy - The Reel Note
Lisa Null - Legacies
Micheal O hAlmhain - Tuile Agus Tra
Phoenix Dance Band - All Fired Up
Ross & Ali - Symbiosis
Kate Rusby - Life In A Paper Boat
Emily Sanders, Chris Parkinson, Pete Morton - The Magical Christmas Tree
Alastair Savage - Alone With History
Pete Seeger - Pete Seeger In England
The Shee - Continuum
Emily Smith - Songs For Christmas
Talisk - Abyss
Tannara - Trig
Trail West - Rescattermastered
Various Artists - Greentrax 30th Anniversary The Special Projects
Various Artists - Orkney Folk Festival Fiddle Gathering
Various Artists - 101 Scottish Songs: The Wee Red Book DVD
We Banjo 3 - String Theory
Chris While And Julie Matthews - Shoulder To Shoulder
ISSUE 116 Web Reviews The following reviews were not able to be published in this issue of the magazine for space reasons.
Alden Patterson And Dashwood - Alden Patterson and Dashwood
John Stuart Scottish Dance Band - North Of The Grampians Vol 1
Connla - River Waiting
Eva Deivert - Lata Fran Bakgarn
Damien Dempsey - No Force On Earth
Eoin Dillon - Pondelorum
Doolin - Doolin
Fairport Convention - Live At My Fathers Place 1974
Rob Halligan - Love Come Down
Kit Hawes & Aaron Catlow - The Fox
Notify - In Concept
Hannah Sanders & Ben Savage - Before The Sun
The Savage Prunes - Straight Line Talking
Martin Simpson & Dom Flemons - Ever Popular Favourites
Cliff Stapleton - The Tumbling Of Creatures
James Tait - The Long Journey Home
Neil Thomson - Gandiegow
Kieran Towers & Charlotte Carrivick - Wolves A Howlin
Carwyn Tywyn - Tanddwr
Various Artists - Sweet Liberties