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For over ten years, the British folk music group the Poozies has combined innovative agreements with a like of common Celtic melodies. The group produced in 1989, when previous Sileas associates Mary Macmaster (metal-strung and electro harps, percussion, and vocals) and Patsy Seddon (gut and electro harps, percussion, vocals, and …

Swåp is really a folk quartet comprising two Britons — accordionist Karen Tweed and guitarist Ian Carr — and Swedish fiddlers Carina Normansson and Ola Bäckstrom (the only person from the quartet never to deal with vocals). As may be expected off their nationalities, Swåp’s music fuses Celtic customs with …

When tradition-rooted acoustic guitarist Ian Carr met accordion participant Karen Tweed in the Shetland Folk Festival in 1990, it had been a gathering of kindred spirits. Within the 10 years since, both instrumentalists possess reinterpreted the music of Britain, Scotland, Ireland, and Wales like a duo and in two folk …