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"Their seductively contemporary sound and production, their mastery of traditional instruments (along with a willingness to look beyond them) and the voice of Karen Matheson have helped Capercaillie re-model the Celtic landscape” - Q Magazine Credited with being at the forefront of the renaissance in folk/roots music over the last 20 years...

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Days Are Mighty

Jeb Loy Nichols

“I wanted to keep this one personal”, says Jeb Loy Nichols. “Personal and small. It seems like that's the only way to keep outside all the nonsense that passes for the music business these days.” For Jeb Loy, the personal has always been political. A small act of sacrifice, of defiance, of awkwardness, is often the starting point of...

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Welcome Here Again

Martin Hayes and Dennis Cahill

Martin Hayes epitomizes the fiddle music of County Clare for many people. He started playing when he was seven years old and, by the age of thirteen, was touring with the Tulla Ceili Band, arguably the most revered and famous ceili band in Ireland at the time which was led by his father, PJ Hayes. Martin was also entering national competitions...

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In Love and Light

Heidi Talbot

"Heidi Talbot sings in a voice that's both awestruck and tender.” – THE NEW YORK TIMES “Talbot is exquisite...Bjork combined with Enya.” – THE VILLAGE VOICE “Ms. Talbot is one of the most generous musicians I know. I love the way she sings and she loves what she does. She is CLASS!” –EDDI READER Look out for a new star...

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The Story So Far

Lúnasa

"One of the hottest, most electrifying bands in Irish music today". – THE IRISH ECHO “The biggest buzz in Irish music is emanating from Lúnasa.” – THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE "Lúnasa manages to marry jazz-rock bass lines and an expanded harmonic sensibility to an older rural music...determined to drag Irish folk music kicking and...

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Loaded

The Waybacks

"These guys can play like bandits." – BILLBOARD “A near-ideal balance of irreverence, chops, discipline, and originality…” – THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE For The Waybacks, musical evolution is a way of life and a spectator sport. They’re as uninhibited and unpredictable as the eclectic San Francisco Bay area that claims them, but their...

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Ships in the Forest

Karan Casey

"Angelic. Haunting. Spellbinding." (The Calgary Herald) "among the loveliest in folk music..." (The Boston Globe). Karan Casey is one of the most influential and imitated vocalists in Irish and American folk music; a natural innovator, she proves that the ancient and the modern make excellent bedfellows. On Ships in the Forest, her fifth...

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Sun Dirt Water

The Waifs

Nobody’s fretting about making an album here, much less the challenge of following a triple-platinum, multi-award-winning independent roots music landmark of five years earlier. As tourists take pictures of the studio’s scarred back wall—the place where Waylon Jennings is said to have practiced throwing his bowie knife between takes back...