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I was checking out the Fairport Convention site recently and noticed a mention of The Gathering, I mean let’s face it any band that has Jerry Donahue playing guitar is automatically worth a look. The band is comprised of members of Fairport Convention, Steeleye Span, Lindisfarne, Magna Carta, The Albion Band, Jethro Tull, and Pentangle. [...]

Everyday is a little adventure combing the byways and peering into the darkness of the odd gimmel of the Internet, and sometimes you find something that jumps out of the darkness screaming. This was such a day. Poitín was the name of a band here in Australia. I frequented the bar of the Dan O’Connell [...]

Well here it is Saturday again and it’s going to be short and sweet. The band don’t seem to have performed since the release of their July 2006 CD called “The Rocks of France”, so it being the pointy football grand final later today, I’m going to a term from the game and take a [...]

3 Daft Monkeys (what a cool name… it conjures up a whole bunch of images about what they will sound like) are from Cornwall over in the UK and combine rousing vocals, frenetic fiddling, rhythmical 12-string guitar, dancing bass and foot drum. So what do they sound like ? Well they have Celtic, Balkan, Gypsy, [...]

Today let’s chat about The Duhks. They play an amazing combination of Appalachian bluegrass, the odd irish fiddle tune, and a bit of folk rock just to round the mix off. I first found this band when I heard Down To The River off their 2006 album “Migrations”. This song has a wonderful arrangment, a [...]

Fleet Foxes is a five-piece Seattle based band they describe their music as “baroque harmonic pop jams” (I really like that as a description). Their music has a heavy emphasis on harmony, simple three- and four-part block harmony. The songs are about friends and family, history, nature, and the things that surround them in the [...]

Lowry is the brainchild of Alex Lowry.  Originally an art rocker in Kansas, “playing angular progressive rock with a post-punk flair” ( Hmmm. I wonder if there is any of this stuff available?). So from progressive art rock with a punk edge to songs with an wonderfully crafted and produced folk/pop music. This isn’t the [...]