Karine Polwart's long awaited 3rd album to be released December 15th...

Karine Polwart's third solo album 'The Fairest Floo'er' is due for release on December 15th. A slight departure from the style of her last 2 albums, in that this will be mainly traditional material - or at least in a much more traditional vein.

Recorded with partner Mattie Foulds in the spare room of her Scottish Borders home, the album more than hints at its setting. Local ballad tradition supplies the plaintive and elegant opening track, "The Dowie Dens of Yarrow", her favourite of all Scots traditional songs, whilst dense florid imagery infuses the poignant "Birks of Invermay", and is echoed in the lyrical Robert Burns love song "The Lea-rig".

For many, it might seem as though Karine has dissapeared from the scene in 2007 - in fact it has been a productive year for Polwart with the birth of her first child and the recording of not one, but two albums worth of material.

visit: karinepolwart.com

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