Jazz/Blues(2,719)

More Music(401)

R&B/Urban Soul(11,438)

Rap and Hip-Hop(6,031)

Rock/Pop(152,715)

Tribute Bands(3,817)

World(1,978)

Sport

Find Tickets

Country/Folk or

Choose a Category

Customer Reviews for Karine Polwart

Karine Polwart

Read Karine Polwart concert reviews and post your own reviews and ratings.

Average rating:

3.5

(2 Reviews) 2

Rating Snapshot (2 reviews)

5 stars

4 stars

3 stars

2 stars

1 star

2 of 2(100%)customers would recommend this to a friend.

Karine Polwart Fan Reviews - Ticketmaster

Review 1 for Karine Polwart

4 / 5

Faultless

Old Fire Station @

- Oxford @

- 06/10/2012 @

Favourite moment: Sorry- an atmospheric arrangement which sounded like it should have come from a lot more than three people. @

Setlist: The Sun's Coming Over the Hill, King of Birds, Sorry, Follow the Heron, Love Me Do and many more @

Opening act(s): None. @

Posted 12/10/2012

by StephenB

Location:Oxford

Top 10 Contributor

I thought I'd add to the one solitary review of Karine, as she deserves to be better-known. The obvious comparison is with Kate Rusby - Karine's voice isn't quite so extraordinary but is still very good, and as a songwriter I think she's better. However, she's much less well-known - perhaps because she doesn't seem to be all that confident of her talent. She's also spent a lot of time on other things; I've seen her a couple of times at festivals singing folk songs instead of her own much better songs. However, this time it was a concert of her own material.

One advantage of a lack of fame is seeing someone in a tiny (but sold-out) venue - there was no stage as such, and I could practically have reached out and touched her. She was with her brother on guitar and another woman (sorry, I've forgotten the name) on vocals and a whole variety of instruments - the sound was very rich and varied for such a minimal band. She was mainly promoting her new Traces album (of which I now have signed copy) but also did things from earlier albums, although not the title track from the Faultlines album which was what first made me notice her. She also did a request for a rather embarassed woman in the front row, and a cover of Love Me Do. The songs were good, the performance excellent and there was a lot of good-natured banter - what's not to like?

Old Fire Station @

- Oxford @

- 06/10/2012 @

Favourite moment: Sorry- an atmospheric arrangement which sounded like it should have come from a lot more than three people. @

Setlist: The Sun's Coming Over the Hill, King of Birds, Sorry, Follow the Heron, Love Me Do and many more @

Opening act(s): None. @

1 of 1 found this review helpful.

Share this review:

Review 2 for Karine Polwart

3 / 5

Karine Polwart......my intro to "Folk Music"

Oran Mor @

- Glasgow @

- 10/06/2011 @

Favourite moment: ''Where The Smoke Blows'', briefly talking to and getting Karine's autograph. @

Opening act(s): No support act @

Posted 24/07/2011

by Goomeister

Location:Glasgow

Top 250 Contributor

I've said before that I'm always up for any live stuff. The folk scene was new to me so I only had cliched expectations. Some were met, like the friendly, quiet, non participating, intimate audience setting; the land and sea orientated song lyrics and the overall age group (I'm close to it but a good few years to go I like to think!) but the lack of 'nasaly' vocals was certainly a welcome surprise. I've always liked the raw sound of acoustic guitars and I've maybe seen too many over produced concerts in the past where the bands have grandiose ideas of what a concert 'should' be so it was good to see this. For you folkys (or is it folkeys / foakies / folkies?) out there you it'll have been no surprise..... but the concert could have done with a bit more atmosphere. To sum up, Karine has a good voice and can play a briefcase really well! There was also some good interaction with the audience. A good concert all in all.