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Looking for the Thread offers a captivating meeting of different but kindred musical minds of Julie Fowlis, Karine Polwart, and Mary Chapin Carpenter. All three can be proud of their collaboration; we can but hope for a sequel.

Julie Fowlis & Karine Polwart are to collaborate on a new album with Mary Chapin Carpenter.  Looking For The Thread is out on January 24th 2025 with Thirty Tigers worldwide, ahead of which they have shared a new single titled ‘Hold Everything’.

In ‘Pilgrimage for a Pint’, a new BBC Radio 4 documentary on Christmas Eve, Folk musicians Julie Fowlis and Karine Polwart set out on a journey to the most remote pub in mainland Britain – The Old Forge in Inverie.

Karine Polwart is back in the company of award-winning composer and sound designer Pippa Murphy and pianist and composer Dave Milligan on ‘Seek The Light’, a new EP and BBC Radio 4 series that combines a love of science, history, folklore and the natural world. 

Watch Karine Polwart and Dave Milligan performing ‘The Old Men Of The Shells’, a song by Alasdair Roberts that featured on his 2007 album The Amber Gatherers. Karine and Dave are on tour in May 2022 including the Edinburgh Tradfest.

Ahead of their May tour, watch Karine Polwart & Dave Milligan performing ‘Come Away In’ live. The edit is taken from their ‘Live to Your Living Room’ live stream that was recorded at Castlesound Studio.

Watch Karine Polwart & Dave Milligan performing ‘The Parting Glass’, taken from their new album ‘Still As Your Sleeping’. The recording of this track came about following a request from Margaret Atwood. Watch and read more about it here.

Still As Your Sleeping is the stunning new album from singer Karine Polwart and pianist Dave Milligan. Shortly before the record’s release, we sat down with the duo to chat about their new release, babysitting each other’s children and the hunt for patrons with pianos.

Karine Polwart and Dave Milligan have crafted an elegantly uncomplicated listen. Dreamy yet thought-provoking at just the right moments, Still As Your Sleeping is an earnest and embracing soundtrack. Thoroughly warm-hearted and beautifully life-affirming. A genuinely gorgeous and magical duet.

Karine Polwart announces ‘Still As Your Sleeping’ an intimate, stripped-back collection of songs recorded with renowned pianist and composer Dave Milligan. Out on 1st October 2021 via Hudson Records.

On Tuesday 27 April 2021 Spell Songs will perform a unique live streamed concert to raise funds for the Natural History Museum’s Urban Nature Project. We chat to Jackie Morris, Karine Polwart, Seckou Keita, Julie Fowlis, Kris Drever, Jim Molyneux, Rachel Newton and Beth Porter as well as Lauren Hyams, Natural History Museum’s Head of Garden Activities.

To celebrate ‘Small Hours’, the new John Martyn biography, read an extract and watch Karine Polwart performing a beautiful cover of ‘Couldn’t Love You More’.