We are very happy to announce that Karine was named BBC Radio 2 FOLK SINGER OF THE YEAR 2018 at the Folk Awards in Belfast.
The Folk Awards will be broadcast on Sunday 8 April on BBC Four…
Read moreBBC Radio 2 Folk Singer Of The Year 2018, Karine Polwart is a multi-award-winning Scottish songwriter and musician, as well as a theatre maker, storyteller, spoken-word performer and published essayist. Her songs combine folk influences and myth with themes as diverse as Donald Trump’s corporate megalomania, Charles Darwin’s family life and the complexities of modern parenthood. She sings traditional songs too and writes to commission for theatre, animation and thematic collaborative projects. Karine is six-times winner at the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards, including twice for Best Original Song.
In association with The Royal Lyceum Theatre and Edinburgh International Festival 2016, Karine wrote, musically directed, and performed Wind Resistance, her critically acclaimed debut work for theatre. A poetic meditation on midwifery, ecology, sanctuary, and solidarity, it combines elements of memoir, essay, myth, sound art and song. Wind Resistance won the BEST MUSIC & SOUND AWARD at the CATS (Critics Awards for Theatre in Scotland) 2017 and Karine was also shortlisted for the BEST ACTOR 'Scottish Oscar' in the Sunday Herald Culture Awards.
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THE SCOTTISH NEW MUSIC AWARD FOR INNOVATION IN NEW MUSIC
Happy to announce that Karine and PIppa are the winners of The Ginkhana Award for Innovation in new Traditional Music in association with Hands Up for Trad for A Pocket Of Wind Resistance.
Karine says : "Thanks to…
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A POCKET OF WIND RESISTANCE | DOUBLE GATEFOLD VINYL
'A Pocket of Wind Resistance' will be available as a very limited edition Gatefold Double LP!
You will be able to purchase the record as part of Record Store Day 2018 which takes place on April 21st.
The…
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BBC RADIO 2 FOLK AWARDS NOMINATIONS : BEST ALBUM & FOLK SINGER OF THE YEAR
Delighted to be nominated twice at this year's BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards. Me and Pippa Murphy Music are up for Best Album for Pocket of Wind Resistance, alongside the marvellous Eliza Carthy and her gorgeous merry band, the hypnotic reedy…
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WIND RESISTANCE | MILTON KEYNES INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL
The Stables, Stockwell Lane, Wavendon, Milton Keynes, MK17 8LU
HERALD ✮✮✮✮✮ | THE SCOTSMAN ✮✮✮✮✮ | THE LIST ✮✮✮✮✮ | THE IRISH TIMES ✮✮✮✮✮ | THE STAGE ✮✮✮✮✮ | TELEGRAPH ✮✮✮✮✮ | THE GUARDIAN ✮✮✮✮✮
Every autumn, two and a half thousand pink-footed geese fly from Greenland to winter at Fala Flow, a protected peatbog southeast of Edinburgh.
From this windy plateau, Karine Polwart surveys the surrounding landscape through history, song, bird-lore and personal memoir. Ideas of sanctuary, maternity, goose skeins, Scottish football legend and medieval medicine all take flight, in this compelling combination of story and song.
The runaway hit of the Edinburgh International Festival 2016, a compelling fable for our modern world, written and performed by Scotland’s leading singer-songwriter Karine Polwart, and directed by Wils Wilson, whose production of The Strange Undoing of Prudencia Hart was a smash-hit with Perth audiences, and audiences world-wide, in 2014.
Nominated for Best New Play, Best Production, Best Director and winner of Best Music and Sound at CATS 2017 (Critic’s Awards for Theatre in Scotland).
WIND RESISTANCE | MILTON KEYNES INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL
The Stables, Stockwell Lane, Wavendon, Milton Keynes, MK17 8LU
HERALD ✮✮✮✮✮ | THE SCOTSMAN ✮✮✮✮✮ | THE LIST ✮✮✮✮✮ | THE IRISH TIMES ✮✮✮✮✮ | THE STAGE ✮✮✮✮✮ | TELEGRAPH ✮✮✮✮✮ | THE GUARDIAN ✮✮✮✮✮
Every autumn, two and a half thousand pink-footed geese fly from Greenland to winter at Fala Flow, a protected peatbog southeast of Edinburgh.
From this windy plateau, Karine Polwart surveys the surrounding landscape through history, song, bird-lore and personal memoir. Ideas of sanctuary, maternity, goose skeins, Scottish football legend and medieval medicine all take flight, in this compelling combination of story and song.
The runaway hit of the Edinburgh International Festival 2016, a compelling fable for our modern world, written and performed by Scotland’s leading singer-songwriter Karine Polwart, and directed by Wils Wilson, whose production of The Strange Undoing of Prudencia Hart was a smash-hit with Perth audiences, and audiences world-wide, in 2014.
Nominated for Best New Play, Best Production, Best Director and winner of Best Music and Sound at CATS 2017 (Critic’s Awards for Theatre in Scotland).
WIND RESISTANCE | MILTON KEYNES INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL
The Stables, Stockwell Lane, Wavendon, Milton Keynes, MK17 8LU
HERALD ✮✮✮✮✮ | THE SCOTSMAN ✮✮✮✮✮ | THE LIST ✮✮✮✮✮ | THE IRISH TIMES ✮✮✮✮✮ | THE STAGE ✮✮✮✮✮ | TELEGRAPH ✮✮✮✮✮ | THE GUARDIAN ✮✮✮✮✮
Every autumn, two and a half thousand pink-footed geese fly from Greenland to winter at Fala Flow, a protected peatbog southeast of Edinburgh.
From this windy plateau, Karine Polwart surveys the surrounding landscape through history, song, bird-lore and personal memoir. Ideas of sanctuary, maternity, goose skeins, Scottish football legend and medieval medicine all take flight, in this compelling combination of story and song.
The runaway hit of the Edinburgh International Festival 2016, a compelling fable for our modern world, written and performed by Scotland’s leading singer-songwriter Karine Polwart, and directed by Wils Wilson, whose production of The Strange Undoing of Prudencia Hart was a smash-hit with Perth audiences, and audiences world-wide, in 2014.
Nominated for Best New Play, Best Production, Best Director and winner of Best Music and Sound at CATS 2017 (Critic’s Awards for Theatre in Scotland).
Edinburgh International Feastival | Karine Polwart's Scottish Songbook
Karine will dig into her all-time favourite Scottish pop songs from the past fifty years, and explore the special musical landscape that she grew up in. From childhood memories of her mum’s Donovan and Gerry Rafferty LPs, through her young love of Big Country, Annie Lennox and The Blue Nile, she’ll also revisit maverick innovators like Bert Jansch and John Martyn, and celebrate current bands like Frightened Rabbit and Chvrches. Karine is joined onstage by a brilliant 6-piece band featuring Admiral Fallow’s lead singer and guitarist, Louis Abbott for a joyful evening of Scottish music gems.