“A Heart That Never Closes,” the new song from Mary Chapin Carpenter, Julie Fowlis and Karine Polwart, is out now. The track is the latest unveiled from the trio’s first collaborative album, Looking ...

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 BIG Project. By ...

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That being said, Traces is an album that is firmly grounded in reality - whether it's the burning political issues of contemporary Scotland or the singer's own losses. It's a hugely ambitious record ...

Karine Polwart’s new album is stripped back, just her voice and Dave Milligan’s piano. But, like all her work, it is an exercise in collaboration, both direct and indirect. Milligan is a neighbour in ...

MULTI award-winning Scottish songwriter Karine Polwart returns to Purbeck Valley Folk Festival for this year’s August festival. Karine is the latest headliner to be announced, coming five years after ...

They're the songs that soundtracked Scotland as the shipyards fell silent and the coal mines closed, when the streets rang with dissent about the poll-tax and a country raised its voice against a ...

Scottish singer, songwriter and essayist Karine Polwart seldom comes stateside. She prefers to limit air travel in order to minimize her carbon footprint. She took exception, however, to fly from ...

Scottish storyteller and folk musician Karine Polwart had been visiting Edinburgh’s Royal Botanic Garden for 30 years before inspiration struck for a new theatre piece. It was December 2019 and ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Although Karine Polwart is a folk singer, albeit one who strains the boundaries, of the genre, she grew up in ...

THERE are very few singer-songwriters whose words you await with bated breath, but Karine Polwart is that rare creature. She doesn't disappoint here, either, pontificating on technology and warfare in ...

That being said, Traces is an album that is firmly grounded in reality - whether it's the burning political issues of contemporary Scotland or the singer's own losses. It's a hugely ambitious record ...