If Tweed isn't keen on playing solos, you'd never know it. Admittedly, she has a little support from the musical friends encountered variously in Denmark, at Glasgow's Celtic Connections festival and in Newcastle-upon-Tyne. The seminal meeting was at the Halkaerkro festival when she busked in a café with Alakotila, a pianist of immense taste and sensitivity who was performing with Troka.

'May Monday' is a mind-blowing mix (with not a synth in sight!) of English, Irish and Scandinavian traditional material arranged by Tweed and Alakotila and compositions by the likes of Andy Cutting, Sarah Allen, Chris Wood, Ian Lowthian and Tweed herself. It is superbly produced by Olli Varis. There are elements of jazz and sometimes the sound is almost symphonic. The quality of the ensemble playing is exceptional, and the empathetic interplay of Tweed and Alakotila is reminiscent of the electricity which arcs between Hayes and Cahill or Wood and Cutting in performance. "May Monday" is folk music which needn't touch its forelock to anything the classical mob can put up; it's genuine art-music performed by a virtuoso at the height of her powers.