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A work colleague pointed me in the direction of this band Brightwater. They are a contemporary folk band writing and performing their own music and located in Melbourne, Australia. From their website: Award winning songwriters, ‘Brightwater’, have been playing folk clubs, acoustic music venues, bush dances and festivals from Port Fairy to Loch Sport since [...]

How can you go past a band that has song titles like “Home as a Romanticized Concept Where Everyone Loves You Always and Forever” or “A Sad Country Ballad for a Tired Superhero” and “In the Battle of Sun Vs. Curtains Sun Wins and We Sleep Until Noon” (and no I am not making this [...]

Out of Ireland comes ballad singing group the High Kings; in the tradition of such greats as the Dubliners, the Fureys, and the Clancey brothers, to name but a few, The High Kings has a pedigreed lineup with Finbarr Clancy, Martin Furey, Brian Dunphy and Darren Holden. Each member a fine vocalist and musician in [...]

Just a little note before I begin, sparrows are not lovely, they are small and drab in appearance and neither do they sing; although they do make a lot of noise. So having said that, I can report with confidence that the band “The Lovely Sparrows” in no way resemble sparrows. Another indie pop outfit [...]

A celtic folk band from where? Poland? No stranger than the last weeks offering of a celtic folk band from the Czech Republic, just as unlikely though. This particular band Banshee, and there are a few going by that name in different places around the globe, consists of six musicians from Krakow in Poland. One [...]

I must confess I have always had a soft spot for Suzanne Vega’s work since I first heard back in the Eighties. Jools and I saw her at the Dallas Brooks Hall in the late Eighties (September 1987 it turns out) and find that I can still call up memories of the performance (which for [...]

Fink (otherwise known as Fin Greenall) as started out in the music business as a DJ and then started playing a more interesting style, mainly built around his bluesy voice, finger-picking acoustic guitar and the stripped-back live rhythm section. T touring trio fronted by Greenall himself, completed by Guy Whittaker (bass) and Tim Thornton (drums). [...]