Karine Polwart
@IAMKP
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mossmurmuring, songconjuring, storytelling, wondering
Pathhead, Scotland
Joined February 2009
My 17 year old off to TRNSMT on the w/e. I ask for a rundown of programme and he talks excitedly about @DeclanMcKenna @gerrycinamon before saying "then I have to sit through some band that are *literally* called Garbage . ". There's the multigenerational gulf right there! 😆.
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RT @GraemeAThomson: Goodness, Forever Songs on @BBCRadio3 by @IAMKP is really beautiful, thoughtful, affirming radio - all about life, musi….
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Available episodes of Forever Songs
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The final part of my mini series 'Forever Songs' - inspired by songs, memories & my delightful neighbour, Al Beck - airs on @BBCRadio3 at 9.45pm, then heads to @BBCSounds . Expect a surprise guest. And have a hankie ready. Huge thanks to Al's family and to producer @breithorn.
“Thinking of you, over the fields…”. An elegy in song, for a rural East Lothian legend, by celebrated folk musician @IAMKP, in the back garden. The Essay: Forever Songs on @BBCSounds 📷 John Beck ▶
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Music - Memory - Connection - Kindness - Humour - Spark - Grief - LOVE. Part 3 of 'Forever Songs' inspired by my late neighbour, Al Beck, is on tonight at 9.45pm on @BBCRadio3 First two episodes already available on @BBCSounds.
“Thinking of you, over the fields…”. An elegy in song, for a rural East Lothian legend, by celebrated folk musician @IAMKP, in the back garden. The Essay: Forever Songs on @BBCSounds 📷 John Beck ▶
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RT @AudreyBirt: The Essay - Forever Songs - How Happy I Am - BBC Sounds Loving this story as it unfolds. @IAMKP inspired and inspiring as….
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Karine Polwart considers music's ritual power to connect, soothe, honour and remember.
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RT @PeterAlanRoss: A beautiful thing about a beautiful thing: @IAMKP's Radio 3 essay about playing a back garden gig, during the pandemic,….
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Karine Polwart considers music's ritual power to connect, soothe, honour and remember.
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RT @Rokewood: How good is this from @BBCRadio3 & @IAMKP? Out of this world. Every note & syllable. Listen to the whole series. https://t.co/….
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Karine Polwart considers music's ritual power to connect, soothe, honour and remember.
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Thanks so much to @PaulEnglishhack for helping to tell the story of the delightful Al Beck and his back garden, homespun, single household lockdown festival: BECKSTIVAL - featured tonight and all this week at 9.45pm on @BBCRadio3 - 'Forever Songs' -.
In today’s @heraldscotland, my front page exclusive telling how folk singer Karine Polwart @IAMKP staged a micro-festival in the garden of a neighbour in the last stages of cancer. #buyapaper
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The gift of a bespoke garden gig to a neighbour nearing end of life in the summer of 2020. A glorious email trail about the beloved songs that tell his story. A homespun, single household, lockdown FESTIVAL. Forever Songs @BBCRadio3 @breithorn .
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WTF?!.
🚨BREAKING🚨 . @BrewDog have *sacked* one of our members for challenging senior management for allowing the EDL - a known fascist organisation - to meet in their workplace, the biggest pub in London. We will be doing everything we can legally & industrially to support this member.
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Three tickets left for this evenings Compassion Salon at 7pm, Steel Coulson Southside in Edinburgh - brilliant bar, brilliant beer, brilliant company.
Only three tickets left !❤️❤️ @writerkcampbell @IAMKP.
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Just because it's become a TikTok smash the magnificent "Smalltown Boy' by @bronskibeatband + "Here Comes The Rain' by mighty @DaveStewart @AnnieLennox with @IngeThomson @GraemeJSmillie @AdmiralFallow Louis Abbott, Calum Mc & Stevie P.
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The Stars Are Ours for the right to access land as communities - to roam, to camp, to live in peace. Me and @MilliganDave on tour later in June to @MKStables @StollerHall @FireStationSun @BACKendal & Cheshire’s Clonter Opera.
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Bairns singing #SmilesBetter from the #SnappyOpera me & @pippamurph made for @mahoganyopera . The dastardly (actually just misguided) Smiles Better Inc. bring their shiny Smile Hoover, Smile Remover & Smile Improver, to town. But no-one actually needs it ….
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Dundonians - how would you pronounce 'The Gaumont' - the old cinema that used to be in the town? Like "Cow-mont' or like "Haw-mont' or in some other particular Dundee fashion? Ta!.
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RT @AamerAnwar: War crimes before our eyes, intensified deliberately by Israel, whilst the UK persists in its complicity with genocide 💔🇵🇸.
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