We're continuing the Laws Of Motion Tour with a few intimate Scottish shows. Tickets on sale today.
Thu, May 16 | FINDHORN Universal Hall
Fri, May 17 | DUNDEE Gardyne Theatre
Sat, May…
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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BBC HOGMANAY LIVE | KARINE POLWART'S SCOTTISH SONGBOOK
You can watch Karine and the Scottish Songbook band on the BBC Scotland Hogmanay show performing Deacon Blue's Dignity until the end of the month
LAWS OF MOTION | FIRST REVIEWS
UNCUT 8/10 "Easily her most ambitious record to date. Considered, compassionate and intricate..."
THE OBSERVER ★★★★ "Assured and atmospheric"
THE ARTS DESK ★★★★ "Strong, empathic songs as full and rounded as the globe itself"
THE SKINNY ★★★★…
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CELTIC CONNECTIONS | KARINE POLWART & KRIS DREVER WITH SCOTTISH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA
Longtime Celtic Connections-goers might remember Karine Polwart and Kris Drever’s festival debuts, around about the millennium, as exciting new talents with Malinky and Fine Friday respectively. Today, each ranks among the UK’s foremost singer-songwriters. Following her hugely-lauded theatre work Wind Resistance, Polwart’s sixth solo album, Laws of Motion, garnered further glowing reviews in 2018, while Drever’s third, 2016’s If Wishes Were Horses, foregrounded his superb original songcraft alongside the vocal and guitar skills also deployed with Lau. Onstage together tonight, they première sumptuous orchestral versions of songs old and new, arranged by Pippa Murphy and Kate St John. Supported through the Scottish Government’s Edinburgh Festivals Expo Fund.
A major hit at 2018’s Edinburgh International Festival, Karine Polwart’s Scottish Songbook reveals yet another dimension to the singer-songwriter’s multi-award-winning artistry, in between her hugely lauded theatre project Wind Resistance and her newly released sixth solo album, Laws of Motion. The Herald’s five-star review called it “a mighty celebration which bounced between giddy veneration and daring reinvention,” extolling both Polwart’s selection and delivery of her favourite Scottish pop songs, covering authors from Chvrches to Ivor Cutler, John Martyn to the Proclaimers, Strawberry Switchblade to The Blue Nile.
“I come to the rich archive of Scottish pop music with a folk singer’s heart,” Polwart wrote in a preview article. “I dig into the songs that connect with me, as centuries-old ballads often do, for their ability to reveal something about living here, in this place, right now.” She reprises the show here with her crack backing line-up of Steven Polwart, Inge Thomson, Louis Abbott, Calum McIntyre and Graeme Smillie.
The Lost Words - A Spell Book by writer Robert Macfarlane and artist Jackie Morris. Described by the Guardian as a ‘cultural phenomenon’ this book holds “spells of many kinds that might just, by the old strong magic of being spoken aloud, unfold dreams and songs, and summon lost words back into the mouth and the mind’s eye”.
The Lost Words – Spell Songs is a new musical companion piece to The Lost Words book where musicians will indeed be unfolding the “dreams and songs” living within the pages of the book.
Featuring : Karine Polwart Julie Fowlis Seckou Keita Kris Drever Kerry Andrew Rachel Newton Beth Porter Jim Molyneux
The Lost Words - A Spell Book by writer Robert Macfarlane and artist Jackie Morris. Described by the Guardian as a ‘cultural phenomenon’ this book holds “spells of many kinds that might just, by the old strong magic of being spoken aloud, unfold dreams and songs, and summon lost words back into the mouth and the mind’s eye”.
The Lost Words – Spell Songs is a new musical companion piece to The Lost Words book where musicians will indeed be unfolding the “dreams and songs” living within the pages of the book.
Featuring : Karine Polwart Julie Fowlis Seckou Keita Kris Drever Kerry Andrew Rachel Newton Beth Porter Jim Molyneux
The Lost Words - A Spell Book by writer Robert Macfarlane and artist Jackie Morris. Described by the Guardian as a ‘cultural phenomenon’ this book holds “spells of many kinds that might just, by the old strong magic of being spoken aloud, unfold dreams and songs, and summon lost words back into the mouth and the mind’s eye”.
The Lost Words – Spell Songs is a new musical companion piece to The Lost Words book where musicians will indeed be unfolding the “dreams and songs” living within the pages of the book.
Featuring : Karine Polwart Julie Fowlis Seckou Keita Kris Drever Kerry Andrew Rachel Newton Beth Porter Jim Molyneux