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The Knotted Circle is an exploration of Celtic music by two musicians (Kinnfolk) who feel in love with the music of Ireland and then fell in love with one another in Roanoke, VA. 

Julie Kinn (bodhrán, vocals) and Josh Kinn (octave mandolin, guitar, vocals) are Kinnfolk, a duo based in Roanoke, Virginia. They play an attractive brand of Celtic folk with clear clean vocals and a way with harmony; check out their acappella Loch Lomond, or Julie’s bodhrán and vocal on the English song Byker Hill (their YouTube version was filmed in a rusty industrial location for added grit).

Kinnfolk choose material from the traditional treasure chests of Ireland and Scotland, for example: As I Roved Out, The Barnyards of Delgaty. Josh sings the Scots Gaelic A Mhic Iain ‘ic Sheumais, and they include songs that have recently come into the folksinger’s bag such as: Peter Jones’ Kilkelly, Ireland and Steve Earle’s The Galway Girl. They even add a new one of their own The Hat Song, which at 5 minutes is one of the longer songs on the recording.

Three tune sets are played by Josh on the octave mandolin, The Transatlantic Set (Whiskey Before Breakfast / The Arkansas Traveler / John Stenson’s No. 2), The Ballydesmond Polkas (Ballydesmond Polkas No. 1, 2 & 3) and The Borden Set (The Tuned Bodhrán / Run from the Horseshoe / The Spinning Silver Penny). Josh has great empathy with these tunes, and brings the often-hackneyed Ballydesmond Set back to life.

If I had to pick a favourite track it would be the Robbie Burns’ song Now Westlin Winds. For economy of writing you won’t find a more condensed comment on our fractious relationship with nature, and to think it was written in 1775 when Burns was 16 and at school in Kirkoswald. Julie Kinn’s version is stunning in its simplicity, just voice and guitar, every word and every message ringing true for our times and beyond.

Tracks:
01 - As I Roved Out
02 - The Transatlantic Set
03 - The Barnyards of Delgaty
04 - Now Westlin Winds
05 - The Hat Song
06 - Kilkelly, Ireland
07 - The Ballydesmond Polkas
08 - Byker Hill
09 - A Mhic Iain 'ic Sheumais
10 - The Borden Set
11 - The Galway Girl
12 - Loch Lomond


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