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Folk music reviews by Mike Davies
2025
Review
Clementine Lovell
Westbound
Review
Rachael McShane & The Cartographers
Uncharted
Review
Will Finn & Rosie Calvert
Fallow Alchemy
2024
Review
Cohen Braithwaite-Kilcoyne
Play Up The Music!
Review
David Carroll and Friends
Bold Reynold Too
Review
Hannah Sanders & Ben Savage
In The Dark We Grow
Review
Jackie Oates & John Spiers
A Midwinter’s Night
Review
Kitewing
Kitewing
Review
Rachel Walker and Aaron Jones
The Wild Rowans
2023
Review
Finbar Furey
Moments in Time
Review
The Furrow Collective
We Know The Moon
Review
George Sansome & Matt Quinn
Sheffield Park
Review
Nuala Kennedy
Shorelines
Review
Jack Rutter
This Is Something Constant
Review
Georgia Shackleton
Harry’s Seagull
Review
The Young’uns
Tiny Notes
2022
Review
Lizzy Hardingham
How Did We Get Here?
Review
Megson
Unknown Waters
Review
Ranagri
Tradition II
Review
The Brothers Gillespie
The Merciful Road
Review
The Exmouth Shanty Men
Tall Ships and Tavern Tales
2021
Review
Various Artists
I Am Of Ireland: Yeats in Song
Review
Cohen Braithwaite-Kilcoyne
Rakes & Misfits
Review
Mossy Christian
Come Nobles And Heroes
Review
Gnoss
The Light of the Moon
Review
Karine Polwart & Dave Milligan
Still As Your Sleeping
Review
Spell Songs
Spell Songs II : Let the Light In
Review
The Meadows
Dreamless Days
2020
Review
Joshua Burnell
Flowers Where The Horses Sleep
Review
Elizabeth & Jameson
Northern Shores & Stories
Review
Sam Lee
Old Wow
Review
Elle Osborne
If You See a Rook on Its Own, It’s a Crow
Review
Jack Sharp
Good Times Older
2019
Review
Honey and the Bear
Made in the Aker
Review
Moirai
Framed - The Alice Wheeldon Story
Review
Show of Hands
Battlefield Dance Floor
2018
Review
Katriona Gilmore & Jamie Roberts
A Problem Of Our Kind
Review
You Are Wolf
Keld
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