Karine Polwart

Karine Polwart: “I get filled up by space”

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by Johnny Foreigner

I recently contacted Karine Polwart, requesting the Scot singer/songwriter bring her brilliant Wind Resistance to Boston or New York. Karine politely replied she is too busy being a mom, as well as performing in the UK, for a US tour. This means Johnny Foreigner must plan his return to Glasgow, perhaps for the 2018 Celtic Connections festival, followed by a chilly ramble in the Scottish highlands. I need to get “filled up with space.”

Karine Polwart’s Wind Resistance

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Having performed sell-out runs at Edinburgh International Festival 2016 and Celtic Connections 2017, Wind Resistance returns to The Lyceum, this time on the main stage.

★★★★★ ‘a stunning exploration of the myths and stories of the land around us’ The Telegraph

★★★★★ ‘Blissful meditation on nature from folk musician Karine Polwart’ The List

Find out more: http://www.lyceum.org.uk/windresistance #WindResistance @lyceumtheatre

Music review: Breathless power and resistance from singer Karine Polwart

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AS the light shone first onto our own faces, I didn’t realise that by the end of the performance I would feel so buffeted. Polwart’s stage presence is stronger than the average Scottish gale. She’s everything: nimble, canny, a wise woman in the truest sense of the words. Now a Robert the Bruce spider, now an earnest teacher (the sort that still loves her subject), now a full choir blasting us with chords that rolled over us like waves.

I was left breathless by opulent descriptions of the Midlothian moor, or birds, or seeds, or moss. Her rich voice and tenor guitar, the effortless switching between words and song. As the narratives stacked up like an overlapping patchwork of natural grasses, I bounced weightlessly between the woman before me, and the stories of women gone before me.[ . . . ] More at: Music review: Breathless power and resistance from singer Karine Polwart | The National