Join us this Sunday 3 May at 10:30 am for the next Hudson Records Listening Club and listen to ’Laws of Motion’ in its entirety with commentary and insights from Karine Polwart, Inge Thomson and Steven Polwart.
Jimmy Aldridge & Sid Goldsmith partner with Kings Place for one-day festival exploring the role folk music can play in highlighting environmental issues. featuring Karine Polwart, Peggy Seeger, George Monbiot, Hazel Askew and Edgelarks.
Karine Polwart’s Scottish Songbook album has reached number 34 in the UK Album Charts, her first-ever Top 40 Album. It also reached an incredible No 2 in the Scottish Album Charts. Don’t miss her Songbook tour.
Karine Polwart covers some fifty years of Scottish pop and rock in an album of covers from Gerry Rafferty to Frightened Rabbit. Sung from the heart she makes each song her own, a triumphant tribute to some of Scotland’s finest.
We talk to Scottish singer and song writer Karine Polwart about The Lost Words: Spell Songs project as well as how she sees her own relationship between music, landscape and place – “Music and storytelling is key, because both are such elemental forms of human interconnection.”
“The Lost Words” finally reaches us in the form of Spell Songs. Composed by eight of folk’s finest contemporary talents: Karine Polwart, Seckou Keita, Julie Fowlis, Kris Drever, Jim Molyneux, Kerry Andrew, Rachel Newton and Beth Porter, the songs bring us hope for the future.
Karine Polwart today announces her forthcoming new album ‘Scottish Songbook’, due for release on August 2, 2019, through Hegri Music. Listen to the latest single from the album, Polwart’s version of ‘Women Of The World’ by Ivor Cutler.
Part One of our Best Folk Albums of 2018 includes Brigid Mae Power, Anna & Elizabeth, Aidan O’Rourke, Eamon O’Leary, Buck Curran, Cath & Phil Tyler, Dom Flemons, Kitty Macfarlane, Mike Vass, Toby Hay, Duncan Chisholm and more.
Songs have power, and Karine Polwart has a gift for harnessing that power. Her 2018 return to the studio to record Laws of Motion is a perfect reminder of her talent as a performing singer song writer and a worthy addition to her work; an exceptional album, from an exceptional performer.
Our Song of the Day is ‘Laws of Motion’, the title track of Karine Polwart’s new album which drops this month on 19th October via Hudson Records and is supported by a UK Tour Including London Cadogan Hall on October 17.
Karine Polwart announces new album ‘Laws Of Motion’ and shares lead single ‘Ophelia’. A 13-date headline tour to support the release kicks off at London’s Cadogan Hall in October.
