★★★★★ I went into Maggie & Me full prepared to dislike it. Memoir or not, stories written about writers, by writers are fated to walk the shaky ground overhanging a…

★★★★ This was my first encounter with Frankie Archer, but hopefully not the last. An itinerant purveyor of wonderous electrofolk, she brings genuine originality to the traditional music space. Her…

★★★★ This year’s Edinburgh TradFest special commission, Everyone’s Welcome to Edinburgh sought to celebrate the city’s history as a hub of traditional music and culture. Devised by Edinburgh-born, but now…

★★★★ Kevin Henderson, Olav Luksengård Mjelva and Anders Hall aka The Nordic Fiddlers Bloc make a pretty unique trio. Products of the Shetland, Norwegian, and Swedish violin traditions respectively, they…

★★★★★ There are so many layers to this splendid production, that no review will likely do justice to Journey to the Isles: Marjory Kennedy-Fraser, as created and performed by Marion…