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“In My Life” by Kathy Barwick

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Kathy Barwick is an accomplished musician that plays the guitar, banjo, bass, mandolin and dobro.  She has more than 30 years’ experience in playing folk, bluegrass, blues and Irish music in various bands and in a variety of studio settings.  Drawing on her extensive experience she has splendidly blended these music styles to create a fantastic first solo album, “In My Life.” This collection of traditional tunes has a little bit of the Beatles thrown in just to keep you … Continue reading →

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“Honk Toot Suite” by Éamonn Coyne and Kris Drever

  With a title like Honk Toot Suite,  I had absolutely no idea what to expect from the album by Éamonn Coyne and Kris Drever.  Reading Coyne is a banjo player was a bit worrying to me.  A banjo is a like a signal that bluegrass is about to be perpetrated; worse yet yodeling  is threatened.  I do not think there is anything kind I could say about yodeling.  However, on hearing it, I knew I really shouldn’t have worried. … Continue reading →

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Celtic Roots Radio Goes Global!

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Three years old this September, Celtic Roots Radio is now broadcasting on FM, satellite radio, webcast and iTunes podcast to over 100 countries around the world. The 30-min show plays a wide range of roots music–Celtic, folk, folk-rock, Breton, Galician, bluegrass, Cajun, Cape Breton, acoustic and singer/songwriter – even a bit of blues, rock or soul, on occasion. The show began when Raymond McCullough, from outside Belfast, in Northern Ireland, decided to record a couple of shows back in 2006. … Continue reading →

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Review: “Cornbread Nation” by Tim O’Brien

Artist: Tim O’Brien Album: “Cornbread Nation” Tim O’Brien is a musical tightrope walker of amazing versatility and talent. His recordings are rarely ever simple, offering instead unexpected connections and combinations where songs can be unusual mash-ups of disparate styles of music, songs where bluegrass can meet Celtic and can then run head first into rock or jazz or just about any other style of music ever conceived. If someone somewhere has tried to play it, it is there, somewhere, in … Continue reading →

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