Karine Polwart

Karine Polwart

Wed 15 Aug 2018 

A sense of place and meaning': Karine Polwart on the magic of Scottish pop

The folk singer’s Edinburgh festival show reinterprets classic and cult Caledonian gems close…

Teddy Jamieson 15th August 

Polwart is happy to turn the pages of the Scottish songbook 

BAD news Ultra Sonic fans. Tunes from your favourite Tartan techno band will probably not be turning up in Karine Polwart’s…

Culture Clash: Karine Polwart 

Cultural fascinations with a renowned Scottish songwriter... 

CLASHMUSIC  

21 · 11 · 2017 

Karine Polwart has always sought fresh avenues to explore. From her 2012 debut onwards, the Edinburgh based songwriter…

Karine Polwart: 'It's five years since I made an album. But I'm a single mother. It takes time' 

18th November 

Nicola Meighan 

KARINE Polwart is sitting at my kitchen table, cradling a cup of tea…

5th November 

From dawn to dusk with... Karine Polwart 

Nadine McBay

FOLLOWING her debut theatre production Wind Resistance, which opened at last year’s Edinburgh International Festival and earned her multiple award nominations, singer-songwriter Karine…

We speak to singer-songwriter Karine Polwart about her new album A Pocket of Wind Resistance, the companion to her Edinburgh Festival show, Wind Resistance 

Feature by Harry Harris | 31 Oct 2017

The image of the folk…

The Hot 100 is The List's annual celebration of the figures who've contributed most to the Scottish cultural landscape during the year.  cultural community. 

No. 40 : Karine Polwart 

The singer-songwriter and essayist is never one to…

THE SCOTSMAN

CLAIRE BLACK 

01 March 2014 

Karine Polwart’s musical life flourished thanks to the time freely given by volunteers when she was a child. Now the multi-award winning singer is doing the same with Broomhouse’s…

February 1, 2014 
Posted by Vicky Grant 

During December the award winning singer songwriter Karine Polwart visited Medical Humanities Sheffield for a three day artist in residence programme. 

Karine: It was Ian (Professor Ian Sabroe, Director of…

Sunday 17 February 2013 

THURSDAY night. BBC Question Time is on telly. I’m venting a week’s worth of rage on Twitter, while nursing a tumbler of special offer white wine. 

A panellist asks: “Do we want to be…

by NEIL MCFADYEN

20 AUGUST, 2012 

Fans of Karine Polwart can at last enjoy a new studio album in the release of Traces (released 13th August). In 2008 This Earthly Spell followed three highly regarded albums and…

Nicola Meighan  
August 7, 2012  

Perhaps you’ve heard Karine Polwart’s stunning protest psalm, Cover Your Eyes, on the radio. It’s the one inspired by You’ve Been Trumped, Anthony Baxter’s documentary about Scotland’s Donald Trump outrage. It’s the one that…