Scottish singer, songwriter and essayist Karine Polwart seldom comes stateside, eschewing air travel to reduce her carbon footprint. But on a... Scottish singer, songwriter and essayist Karine Polwart ...

“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 ...

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Karine Polwart has rightly been garlanded for her original works on record and on stage, but her talents as an interpreter of other artists’ songs are equally acute, not least in taking on the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Thu 16 Nov 2017 13.30 EST Last modified on Thu 3 Jan 2019 11.06 EST Last summer, Karine Polwart staged her first Edinburgh festival show, weaving an ambitious story about the majesties and brutalities ...

The ground around her has long given inspiration to Scottish folk artist Karine Polwart; last year the peat bogs near her home in Fala, Midlothian, gave birth to her first theatre show, Wind ...

Life has come full circle for Scotland’s Karine Polwart, the occasional BBC Radio 2 Folk Award winner. Almost 10 years ago, Polwart was lauded as the next big thing in contemporary folk, a creative ...

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 ...

"It's important that young people hear music from all genres" declares Karine Polwart. The songs on "Faultlines" - her debut "solo" album as singer-songwriter - are musically-diverse, acutely observed ...

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 ...