Cahalen Morrison and Eli West | Live Review | The Greystones, Sheffield | Review by Allan Wilkinson | 24.01.15 For their Sheffield debut, the Seattle-based bluegrass/old time duo Cahalen Morrison and Eli West managed to attract a maximum capacity audience tonight, as an orderly queue gathered through the centre of the bar area at The … Continue reading Archive: Live 2015

Kirsty Law - Shift | Album Review | Toun Records | Review by Allan Wilkinson | 01.01.15 If we strip away all the Newcastle Folk Degree connotations and folk award nominations that go with it and just for a moment concentrate on the actual music and the physical object, what we have here is a … Continue reading Archive: Recordings 2015

The Dovetail Trio | Live Review | The Wheelhouse, Wombwell | Review by Allan Wilkinson | 13.01.14 The summer house at the bottom of the Jones family garden, known variously as the ‘Wheelhouse’ and sometimes the ‘Cabin’ but more often than not simply as ‘Hedley’s Shed’, tonight became the chosen venue for the first live … Continue reading Archive: Live 2014

Trio Gitan - Eastern Horizons | Album Review | Self Release | Review by Liam Wilkinson | 01.01.14 Once again the Trio Gitan has delivered another atmospheric showcase of world music. Eastern Horizons froths with masterfully rendered instrumental improvisations on Hungarian dances, boleros, Klesmer and Celtic blues with a few vocals thrown in for good … Continue reading Archive: Recordings 2014

The Great British Rock and Blues Festival 2013 | Live Review | Butlins, Skegness | Review by Allan Wilkinson | 29.01.13 When we think about the Great British Rock and Blues Festival or the Great British Folk Festival for that matter, held a little over a month earlier, we may be tempted to think why … Continue reading Archive: Live 2013

Locust Honey String Band - He Ain’t No Good | Album Review | Self Release | Review by Allan Wilkinson | 01.01.13 Drawing from the old time traditions of Swannanoa, North Carolina, the all-female trio made up of Chloe Edmonstone on fiddle, guitar and vocals, Ariel Dixon on banjo, guitar and vocal and Meredith Watson … Continue reading Archive: Recordings 2013

The Magic Band | Live Review | The Duchess, York | Review by Allan Wilkinson | 14.04.12 The music of Don Van Vliet came to most listeners on this side of the Atlantic through John Peel's late night pre-Teenage Kicks radio show, which was at first challenging to say the least, especially if you heard … Continue reading Archive: Live 2012

Fish and Bird - Every Whisper is a Shout Across the Void | Album Review | Fiddle Head Records | Review by Allan Wilkinson | 01.01.12 The current line-up of Canada’s Fish and Bird sprung from the original duo of Taylor Ashton and Adam Iredale-Gray, whose two previous albums Fish and Bird (2007) and Left … Continue reading Archive: Recordings 2012

Martin Simpson | Live Review | The Greystones, Sheffield | Review by Allan Wilkinson | 19.01.11 With Martin Simpson just returning from a brief visit to LA over the weekend, apparently there for the single purpose of picking up a brand new guitar, which inevitably prompted a spot of sardonic heckling from Mrs Simpson – … Continue reading Archive: Live 2011

Pamela Wyn Shannon | Live Review | The Wheelhouse, Wombwell | Review by Allan Wilkinson | 20.01.10 A certain name has appeared on publicity material for the Barnsley House Concerts for what seems like months now, as well as on a poster for last years’ hugely successful Wombwell Mad-Fest, but due to unforeseen circumstances, including … Continue reading Archive: Live 2010