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Celtic Connections Review: Packway Handle Band with Harem Scarem
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PACKWAY HANDLE BAND WITH HAREM SCAREM, ORAN MOR, GLASGOW ***
FORMED in Athens, Georgia, during a brief city-wide fascination
with bluegrass, the Packway Handle Band are full of fresh-faced
enthusiasm for their first European tour, punting a fast-paced
traditional sound.
But the Packway Handles are sharper and more modern than they
seem. Their lyrics come heavily laced with irony, satirising sacred
cows from American rock music to fundamentalist religion. Then just
when you think you've got them figured out, they spring out a ...
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Nuala Kennedy: The New Shoes.(Sound recording review)(Brief article)
Magazine article from: Sing Out!
; ...on the Rhine, which even adds a touch of trumpet from Daneil Lapp. Kennedy has performed with cutting edge bands such as Harem Scarem, and she brings some of that funkiness to this project as well; the Dolphin School set opens with a hornpipe done over as...
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