LIVING TRADITION ISSUE 85
The current issue is Issue 85 featuring Dave Swarbrick, it is a few years since his major double lung transplant operation, in this article he talks about what is important to him. Will Noble - Brian Peters interviews a singer from the rural tradition of Yorkshire. John McSherry - Alex Monaghan talks to the Belfast piper. The Ideal Band - from Bob Smith's Ideal Band of the 1930s, through the Ideal Band of the seventies, to the latest incarnation. Duncan Wood - North East fiddler Duncan Wood explains his passion for fiddle music and his recent work with Cathal McConnell. WaterAid - Big National Ceilidh - in part 2 of a feature on David Oliver, we hear about the project that he regards as being the most important of his career to date. We have 'Opinion' from Eric Cowell who reveals his family background which includes the folk song collector Frank Kidson. All this and much more.
REVIEWS IN ISSUE 85
2 Duos - Until the cows come home
Breabach - The Desperate Battle of the birds
Mairearad Green - Passing Places 'Live at Celtic Connections'
Cass Meurig & Nial Cain - Deuawd
Various Artists - Complete Songs of Robert Tannahill Vol 2
Brian McNeill - The Baltic tae Byzantium
Daimh - Diversions
The McCalmans - The Greentrax Years
The Three City Four - Smoke & Dust
Caladh Nua - Happy Days
Beoga - The Incident
Karan Casey & John Doyle - Exiles Return
Brian Finnegan - The Ravishishing Genius of Bones
Pur - The Lassies' Reply
Wendy Weatherby - A Shirt of Silk or Snow
Joe Topping - Ghosts in the Shaddows
Lizzie Nunnery - Company of Ghosts
Geraldine Bradley - From The Rising Spring
Tyde - Tyde
Marianne Green - Dear Irish Boy
Fairport Convention - Live At Cropredy
Coope, Boyes & Simpson - As If
Steeleye Span - Cogs, Wheels and Lovers
Rachel Davis - Rachel Davis
Alan Reid & Rob van Sante - The Rise and Fall O' Charlie
Orion - Strawberry Town
Colum Sands - Look Where I've ended up now
Barbara Dymock & Christine Kydd - Sinsheen
Dave Swarbrick - Raison d'etre
Mairearad Green & Anna Massie - Mairearad & Anna
Rory McLeod - Swings and Roundabouts
Dana & Susan Robinson - Big Mystery
Martin Simpson - True Stories
Michael McGoldrick - Aurora
Various Artists - Many a Good Horseman
Emily Smith & Jamie McClennan - Adoon Winding Nith
Issy & David Emeney - The Waiting
English Rebellion - Four Accross
Lynn Heraud & Pat Turner - Tickled Pink
Dervish - 21 years From Stage To Stage
ISSUE 85 WEB REVIEWS The following reviews were not able to be published in this issue of the magazine for space reasons.
Elsie's Band - Cutaway Mike
Chrissy Crowley - The Departure
Stuart Hardy & Frank McLaughlin - Compass
Stuart Hardy & Frank McLaughlin - Roots 2
Joannie Madden - Pride of New York
Grada - Natural Angle
Solas - The Turning Tide
Megson - The Longshot
Jack McNeill & Charlie Heys - Light up all the Beacons
The Queensberry Rules - Take your own roads
Birkin Tree - Virginia
Donald Grant - The Way Home
Fiddlers' Bid - All Dressed in Yellow
Landermason - Tree of Souls
Lauren MacColl - Strewn with ribbons
Fairport Convention - Fame and Glory
Lau - Arc Light
Chris Sherburn & Denny Bartley - Lucy Wan
Dan Possumato - Pulling Out The Stops
Garry Innes & Ewan Robertson - Shouts
Kerfuffle - Lighten the Dark (a midwinter album)
Skipinnish - Live from the Ceilidh House
Eilidh Mackenzie - Bel Canto
Little Johnny England - Tournament of Shadows
The Albion Dance Band - Rockin Barn Dance
The Albion Band - Natural and Wild
Euphonia - The Old Jawbone
Belshazzar's Feast - Frost Bites