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Folk music reviews by Michele Mele
2025
Review
Andrews Massey Duo
From the Roots... New Branches
Review
Gwilym Bowen Rhys
Aden
Review
Christina Alden & Alex Patterson
Safe Travels
Review
Flook
Sanju
Review
Peter Knight’s Gigspanner
Turnstone
Review
Nicholas Konradsen
The Last King of Lindesey
Review
Trip
In Terra’s Keep
2024
Review
Aerialists
I Lost My Heart on Friday
Review
Ross Ainslie
Pool
Review
Leonard Barry
Littoral
Review
Jon Boden
Parlour Ballads
Review
Boss Morris
Boss Morris
Review
Brian Hughes
When the Wind Blows Wild
Review
Michael Coult
Overflow
Review
Far Flung Collective
To a Sea Cliff
Review
Farefeld
Game of Halves
Review
Fraser Fifield
One Great Circle
Review
Charlie Grey & Joseph Peach
A Breaking Sky
Review
Rob Harbron
As the Days Begin to Lengthen
Review
Mat Green & Andy Turner
Time for a Stottycake
Review
Owen Spafford & Louis Campbell
102 Metres East
Review
Miranda Rutter
Bird Tunes
Review
Session A9
The Magic Roundabout
Review
Calum Stewart
True North
Review
Tarren
Outside Time
Review
The Ciderhouse Rebellion
And Even the Sheep Shall Dance & Tales of Colonsay
Review
Thorpe & Morrison
Grass & Granite
Review
Richard Trethewey
Sons of Cornwall
Review
Richard Trethewey
Two Halves
Review
Laura Wilkie
Vent
2023
Review
Will Allen
English Fiddle II
Review
Alistair Anderson
Hethpool Linn & Hidden Hexham
Review
Assynt
Where From Here
Review
James Bauld
Where I Belong
Review
Brown Boots
Striding Out
Review
Jim Causley
Songs of Dartmoor
Review
Cillian Vallely & David Doocey
The Yew and the Orchard
Review
Daimh
Sula
Review
Lucy Farrell
We Are Only Sound
Review
Filkin’s Ensemble
Live at The Folk
Review
Bella Gaffney
Reflections
Review
Gwenan Gibbard
Hen Ganeuon Newydd
Review
Grace Smith Trio
Overleaf
Review
Grendelcynn
Wæloeæ
Review
Gudrun Walther & Andy Cutting
Conversations
Review
Harriet Riley & Alex Garden
Sonder III
Review
James Delarre & Saul Rose
Kith and Kin
Review
Matti Kallio
Waterfjord
Review
Mikey Kenney
Northwestern English Fiddle
Review
Leveret
Forms
Review
Martin Hayes & the Common Ground Ensemble
Peggy’s Dream
Review
Reg Meuross
Stolen from God
Review
O’Hooley & Tidow
Cloudheads
Review
Alasdair Roberts
Grief in the Kitchen and Mirth in the Hall
Review
Sam Sweeney & Louis Campbell
Shapes
Review
The Ciderhouse Rebellion & Kirsty Merryn
The Devil’s On The Mast
Review
Westward the Light
Flow Country
Review
Ryan Young
Just a Second
2022
Review
Will Allen
English Fiddle
Review
Ben and Dom
Shoulder
Review
Breabach
Fàs
Review
Brian Hughes & Dave Sheridan
However Long the Day
Review
Brighde Chaimbeul, Ross Ainslie and Steven Byrnes
Las
Review
Johnny Coppin
River of Dreams
Review
The Drystones
Vulpus
Review
James Duncan Mackenzie
Fibhig
Review
Tamsin Elliott
Frey
Review
Emily Portman & Rob Harbron
Time Was Away
Review
The Furrow Collective
The Longest Night
Review
Amy Goddard
Rise
Review
Harriet Riley & Alex Garden
Sonder II
Review
Howay the Lasses
Howay the Lasses
Review
Janice Burns & John Doran
No More the Green Hills
Review
Kinnaris Quintet
This Too
Review
Mishra
The Manchester Rambler
Review
Ben Morgan Brown
Down by the Great River Ouse
Review
Mossy Christian & Megan Wisdom
Live Sampler
Review
Padraig Rynne
Begin With the End in Mind
Review
Sam Sweeney
Escape That
Review
Sam Sweeney
Solo
Review
Anna Tam
Hatching Hares
Review
Tarren
Revel
Review
The Canny Band
The Canny Band
Review
The Ciderhouse Rebellion
Genius Loci 2 - The Valley of Iron
Review
The Haar
Where Old Ghosts Meet
Review
The Siskin Quartet
Flight Paths
Review
The Wanton String Band
The Wanton String Band
Review
Thorpe & Morrison
Live Shenanigans
Review
The Trials of Cato
Gog Magog
Review
Trip
A Drop for Neptune
Review
Lewis Wood
Footwork
Review
Words of a Fiddler’s Daughter
Ironstone Tales
Review
Words of a Fiddler’s Daughter
The Tears of Jenny Greenteeth
2021
Review
Mel Biggs
From Darkness Comes Light
Review
Gráinne Brady
Newcomer
Review
Jim Causley
Devonshire Roses
Review
Jim Causley
Devonia
Review
Christina Alden & Alex Patterson
Hunter
Review
Terry Clarke Coyne
Whistle Walks
Review
John Dew
Mackerel Sky
Review
Fraser Fifield
Piobaireachd/Pipe Music
Review
Brian Finnegan
Hunger of the Skin
Review
Ian Fontova
Tales of Olden - Vol. 1
Review
Gadarene
Butchers of Bristol
Review
Glastur
Glastur
Review
Granny’s Attic
The Brickfields
Review
Hannah James & Toby Kuhn
Sleeping Spirals
Review
Honey and the Bear
Journey through the Roke
Review
Paul Hutchinson
Petrichor
Review
Kathryn Locke with Chodompa Music
LA
Review
James Lindsay
Torus
Review
Duncan Lyall
Milestone
Review
Nick Metcalf
Out of the Ashes
Review
Mishra
Reclaim
Review
Bethan Nia
Ffiniau
Review
Ninebarrow
A Pocket Full of Acorns
Review
Old Blind Dogs
Reimagined
Review
Old Blind Dogs
Knucklehead Circus
Review
Painted Sky
The Unquiet Grave
Review
Reg Meuross and Harbottle & Jonas
Songs of Love & Death
Review
Graham Rorie
The Orcadians of Hudson Bay
Review
Anna Tam
Anchoress
Review
Teyr
Estren
Review
Amy Thatcher
Let What’s In Out
Review
The Ciderhouse Rebellion
The Whitby Rose
Review
The Ciderhouse Rebellion
Genius Loci 1 - White Peak
2020
Review
Ross Ainslie
Vana
Review
Ross Ainslie & Ali Hutton
Symbiosis III
Review
Andy May Trio
Big Boots to Fill - A Tribute to the Shepherds
Review
Andy May Trio
Just a Second
Review
Brown Boots
First Steps
Review
Daimh
Stopped in Our Tracks
Review
David Foley & Jack Smedley
Time to Fly
Review
Far Flung Collective
Black Bay
Review
Marie Fielding
The Spectrum Project
Review
Benjamin Fitzgerarld
The Cottage
Review
Chris Gray
Chris Gray
Review
Charlie Grey & Joseph Peach
Live in Concert
Review
David Grubb
Nano
Review
James Harper
Culzean
Review
Harriet Riley & Alex Garden
Sonder
Review
Ewen Henderson
Steall
Review
John Doyle & Mike McGoldrick
John Doyle & Mike McGoldrick
Review
Caroline Keane
Shine
Review
Kevin Henderson & Neil Pearlman
Burden Lake
Review
Ali Levack
My Notes-Volume 1
Review
Calum McIlroy
This Ill Deeds
Review
Luc McNally
Night Off
Review
Ross Miller
The Roke
Review
Benedict Morris
In Sight
Review
Hamish Napier
The Woods
Review
Muireann Nic Amhlaoibh
Thar Toinn/Seaborn
Review
Tom Oakes
Streams Volume 1
Review
Will Pound
A Day Will Come
Review
Project SMOK
Bayview
Review
Kate Rusby
Hand Me Down
Review
Skerryvore
Live Across Scotland
Review
Becky Taylor
Tune Chaser
Review
The Rowan Amber Mill
Golden Strings to Tether the Sun
Review
Thorpe & Morrison
Saffron’s Well
Review
Michael Walsh
Quarehawk
Review
Pat Walsh
Simply Whistle
Review
Wilde Roses
Woven
2019
Review
Albeon
Moorland Tales
Review
Brìghde Chaimbeul
The Reeling
Review
Chris Elliott & Caitlin Jones
Carry Me Home
Review
Counters Creek
The Careful Placement of Stones
Review
The Dovetail Trio
Bold Champions
Review
Edgelarks
Feather
Review
Faustus
Cotton Lords
Review
Flook
Ancora
Review
From the Ground
Beginnings
Review
Charlie Grey & Joseph Peach
Air Iomall
Review
Jarlath Henderson
Raw
Review
Innes Watson and Jarlath Henderson
A Moment in Time
Review
Kirkwall City Pipe Band
Rocks and Salty Water
Review
David Mitchell & Graham Vincent
The Preservation of Fire
Review
Llio Rhydderch
Sir Fôn Bach
Review
Kate Rusby
Philosophers, Poets & Kings
Review
Tannara
Strands
Review
Threepenny Bit
King Ahtu
Review
Traditional Music and Song Association
Young Trad Tour 2018
2018
Review
Bene & Cormac
Wavelength
Review
Glymjack
Light The Evening Fire
Review
Maeve Mackinnon
Strì
Review
Hamish Napier
The Railway
Review
Solasta
A Cure For The Curious
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