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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Goodness, Forever Songs on @BBCRadio3 by @IAMKP is really beautiful, thoughtful, affirming radio - all about life, music, memory, time, connection. Honoured that my John Martyn biography Small Hours gets a wee holler out in Episode 4.
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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 ▶ https://t.co/5vAkG8FrJu
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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 ▶ https://t.co/5vAkG8FrJu
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Do I know anyone here who's got an in to behind scenes end of @HibernianFC?
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The Essay - Forever Songs - How Happy I Am - BBC Sounds Loving this story as it unfolds. @IAMKP inspired and inspiring as always. Thanks for your good wishes for my @SalonCompassion it was a great discussion and fab feedback for my book.
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Karine Polwart considers music's ritual power to connect, soothe, honour and remember.
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A beautiful thing about a beautiful thing: @IAMKP's Radio 3 essay about playing a back garden gig, during the pandemic, for a friend nearing the end of his life. Episode one is available now.
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Karine Polwart considers music's ritual power to connect, soothe, honour and remember.
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How good is this from @BBCRadio3 & @IAMKP? Out of this world. Every note & syllable. Listen to the whole series https://t.co/MrzwPHZzCM
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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
https://t.co/yCiZj1PgHp
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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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on MAPS and what they tell us + closed auction gig fundraisers for @MedicalAidPal
https://t.co/A58cbCZGpM
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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. https://t.co/qm1p0uLDNW
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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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Ocht so sorry to hear about the death of Rod Paterson. One of the sweetest ever singers in Scots. As a soloist and also with Jock Tamson's Bairns and The Easy Club, in particular. Love to family and friends. Here he is - "My Nannie, O" https://t.co/vcM66c6dij via @YouTube
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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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War crimes before our eyes, intensified deliberately by Israel, whilst the UK persists in its complicity with genocide 💔🇵🇸
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