karine polwart

Karine Polwart is at the very pinnacle of Scottish music. If ‘Here’s Where Tomorrow Starts’ is anything to go by, we can look forward to her reaching even greater heights in the future.

Next month, Karine Polwart is to release a brand new DVD titled ‘Here’s Where Tomorrow Starts’. It is filmed largely in The Scottish Borders and features live favourites such as “Daisy”, “Sorry” and “Follow the Heron”. Watch a preview now and get her Autumn tour dates!

In this week’s Friday Folk Music Club we have Emily and the Woods, Sam Brookes, Benjamin Francis Leftwich, Karine Polwart, Battlefield band, Andy Irvine, The Webb Sisters and Walking with Ghosts. Enjoy!

Commonplace: In this uniquely curated event from Chris Wood the English folk tradition is explored, and the stuff of everyday life that informs it. He is joined in this unofficial celebration of the ordinary by John Boden and the Remnant Kings Martin Carthy, Karine Polwart, Hugh Lupton and many others. Also listen to the kings place interview with Chris.

In follow up to their popular Evergreen EP collaboration with Karine Polwart, Lau are to release a new EP with the multi-talented Adem. Plus get tour dates and catch them performing with Karine Polwart.

The Burns Unit is an 8 piece indie folk collaboration between some of the best names including King Creosote and Karine Polwart. Their much anticipated album, Side Show, was released in August.

Yes, it really is getting close to that time of year. News of Christmas shows are coming thick and fast so book’em soon to avoid disappointment. James Yorkston (plus special guests) has a show planned for Monday 20th December, 2010 at the Luminare and is likely to sell out very soon.

Don’t let the title worry you. Karine and the lads of Lau aren’t engaging in a bit of WWF Smackdown aggro. The latest in the impressive history of collaboration between the various members of Lau and Karine Polwart is an enthralling five-track EP, the first in a series of three such releases planned by Lau. Four of the five tracks on this releases are cover versions, more details on those …

It’s always good to hear from artists that are well loved by listeners and Karine Polwart is certainly one of them. She’s been a little bit quiet for a while on news and this newsletter brings us all up to scratch:

Shipwrecks & Static is the début solo album from Inge Thomson, who is likely to be familiar to many as part of the creative force behind Scottish four-piece Harem Scarem, and familiar to many more as part of Karine Polwart’s band, where her musical resourcefulness and incomparably beautiful