Karine Polwart

Winner of Best Album, Best Original Song and Best Emerging Artist at the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards 2005, Scottish Borders based singer-songwriter Karine Polwart combines the economy and universality of the storytelling tradition with a probing intellect, compassionate lyricism and a canny knack for memorable melodies. Though her songs resonate with roots and traditional references, a resolutely contemporary sensibility infuses her albums “Scribbled in Chalk” and “Faultlines” with indie, alt country and jazz influences as well.

Her dark tales of human cruelty and loss are balanced by a pervasive sense of hope and possibility and a sprinkling of wry humour that prove she’s a writer and musician who knows both the best and the worst that the world has to offer.

Price: £13.50