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8th May 2013
FINANCIAL TIMES REVIEW 4****
A lovely literate review of my show at Winchester Discovery Centre on Friday from, of all unexpected sources, the Financial Times! ... Read More
25th Apr 2013
TRACES NOMINATED FOR SAY AWARD
My latest album "Traces" is nominated for Scottish Album of the Year, 2012 ina longlist that includes gorgeous albums by Lau, Duncan Chisholm, Admiral Fallow. Undwinding Hours, Meursault and others. I'm delighted. ... Read More
26th Mar 2013
KARINE POLWART'S WELCOME TO ATHENS
I'm delighted this weekend (Saturday March 30th) to be collaborating with the exceptional Greek-Cypriot songwriter and musician Alkinoos Ioannidis at The Fuzz Club in Athens. I fly out on Thursday in time to work with Alkinoos and his band for a day, on some new pieces written in response to each other's songs. All very exciting! ... Read More
26th Mar 2013
GRIEF IS JUST LOVE WITH NO HOME
Well, we get our ideas as songwriters from wherever we can. And this phrase fell out of the screen of an episode of that new Channel 4 drama "Broadchurch" - the one in which a gaunt and manic David Tennant worries away at the dark secrets of a south west English seaside town. I'm liking the show. Indeed it's the only thing I'm committed to watching in a week's worth of TV.
16th Oct 2011
ON AWESOME-NESS
I arrived by Greyhound coach in Niagara Falls, Ontario on Friday night - in the dark - with no sense of quite where my hotel was in relation to the mighty falls themselves. I mean if Prestwick Airport 30 miles south can call itself "Glasgow" for the purposes of a cheap Ryan Air flight then I was prepared for a Marriott Gateway "By The Falls" to be a long hike from fresh water of any kind. So when I marched down to the lift lobby next morning with breakfast calling I got that BAM! feeling to find the falls pretty much directly below the hotel window!
30th Aug 2011
IS WALES BETTER THAN A FAIRY?
Is it better than the Queen? Well, ahead of a first time Welsh adventure with The Burns Unit - and traveling in style in a Variety Club of Great Britain minibus - my 4 year old son Arlo wanted to know just that ...
23rd May 2013
DUNKELD
BIRNAM ARTS CENTRE - Station Road
, Birnam,
Dunkeld ,PH8 0DS
PHONE: 01350 727 674
WEB:
www.birnamarts.com/index.asp?tm=5&ShowID=1&EID=569&cookies=True
24th May 2013
KENDAL
BREWERY ARTS CENTRE - 122A Highgate, Kendal, Cumbria, LA9 4HE
PHONE: 01539 725 133
WEB:
www.breweryarts.co.uk/music/listing/karine-polwart1
25th May 2013
HEXHAM
QUEENS HALL - Beaumont Street,
Hexham,
Northumberland
, NE46 3LS
PHONE: 01434 652 477
WEB:
www.queenshall.co.uk/whats-on/seasons-diary/695
26th May 2013
PAISLEY
ARTS CENTRE - 15 New Street, Town Centre, Paisley, PA1 1EZ
PHONE: 0141 887 1010
WEB:
boxoffice.renfrewshire.gov.uk/PEO/show.asp
21st Jun 2013
SOLAS FESTIVAL
Solas Festival
The Bield At Blackruthven
Tibbermore
Perth
PH1 1PY
WEB:
www.solasfestival.co.uk/2013/02/headliner-karine-polwart/
23rd Jun 2013
THE INSIDER FESTIVAL
The Insider Festival
Inshriach
Aviemore
Scotland
WEB:
http://www.insiderfestival.com
29th Jun 2013
ISLE OF GIGHA MUSIC FESTIVAL
GIGHA VILLAGE HALL, Hebrides
PHONE: 01583 505160
WEB:
www.gigha.org.uk
12th Jul 2013
ELY FOLK FESTIVAL
Ely, Cambridgeshire.
WEB:
www.elyfolkfestival.co.uk/2013artistPage.asp?nid=6724
13th Jul 2013
ELY FOLK FESTIVAL
Ely, Cambridgeshire
WEB:
www.elyfolkfestival.co.uk/2013artistPage.asp?nid=6724
20th Jul 2013
HEBRIDEAN CELTIC FESTIVAL
Heb Celt Festival
Stornoway
Isle Of Lewis
Scotland
WEB:
www.hebceltfest.com/festival/artists/karine.php
17th Aug 2013
EDINBURGH QUEENS HALL** FRINGE SHOW**
85-89 Clerk St
Edinburgh
EH8 9JG
PHONE: 0131 668 2019
WEB:
www.edfringe.com/whats-on/music/karine-polwart
24th Aug 2013
PURBECK FOLK FESTIVAL
Langton Matravers
near Swanage
BH19 3DU
PHONE: 023 8071 1818
WEB:
www.purbeckfolk.co.uk/index.html
25th Aug 2013
FOLKEAST FESTIVAL
Woodbridge
Suffolk
WEB:
www.folkeast.co.uk/karine-polwart/
21st Sep 2013
PIPEFEST - LANCASTER - Solo Gig
Lancaster University Chaplaincy Centre
PHONE: 01524 414 043
WEB:
www.imageacoustic.com/index.php/pipefest-2013/
12th Oct 2013
LONDON ST JAMES CHURCH
St James Church
157 Piccadilly
London
W1J 9LL
PHONE: 020 7734 4511
WEB:
www.sjp.org.uk/index.html
13th Oct 2013
KESWICK
Theatre By The Lake
Lakeside
Keswick
Cumbria
CA12 5DJ
PHONE: 017687 74411
WEB:
http://www.theatrebythelake.com/production/10746/2013-Karine-Polwart
25th Oct 2013
PERTHSHIRE AMBER FESTIVAL
Caledonia Hall
Edradour Distillery
Pitlochry
PHONE: 01350 724261
WEB:
www.perthshireamber.com/index.php/2013-festival/concerts/evening-concerts
26th Oct 2013
PERTHSHIRE AMBER FESTIVAL
Wee Festival Hall
Upstairs at Amber Central
Dunkeld
PHONE: 01350 724 261
WEB:
www.perthshireamber.com/index.php/tickets/buy/workshops-talks-demos/saturday-26th-october-come-and-enjoy-the-songmakers-detail
27th Oct 2013
PERTHSHIRE AMBER FESTIVAL
Castle Menzies
Weem
Aberfeldy
PH15 2JD
PHONE: 01350 724261
WEB:
www.perthshireamber.com/index.php/2013-festival/general/artists/90-karine-polwart
8th Nov 2013
GLOUCESTER GUILDHALL
23 Eastgate Street
Gloucester
GL1 1NS
PHONE: 01452 503 050
WEB:
www.gloucester.gov.uk/Freetime/Guildhall/listings/music/KarinePolwart.aspx