Magic occurs when people set aside preconceived notions and open their hearts and minds to a world that operates in ways we can’t understand. Throughout her career Mary Chapin Carpenter has been a solo artist. Yet during the pandemic she…
This is a remarkable and beautiful album — charming, moving, heartfelt, and absolutely of the moment. I first heard it properly on a long layover in Vegas, killing time in one of those hybrid lounges tucked beside a sweeps coins…
“Separation” is a much broader term than most of us would give it credit for. While it would most certainly immediately be taken on as an inference towards a partition of physical or communicative value, the word could also successfully…
THE breathtaking Union Chapel is the perfect setting for this rare gathering of Karine Polwart’s full band. Adding piano and percussion to her regular backing of brother Steven (guitar, good looks, bad jokes) and Inge Thompson (accordion, backing vocals, headscarves),…
The Occupy Movement, a BP petrochemical plant, Charles Darwin’s theories on faith and Donald Trump’s Aberdeenshire golf course – these are not typical subjects for folk songs. But Karine Polwart is no typical folk singer. The 41-year-old has recently released…
‘Supergroup’ is one of those terms that gets thrown out there all the time. Two or three folks get together from different bands for a side project, and suddenly its a supergroup. Except usually it’s not. Usually it’s not nearly…