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The Rough Guide To Celtic MusicCeltic music has captured the ears and hearts of people all over the world with bittersweet a cappella ballads and lively jigs and reels. Although most commonly associated with Irish and Scottish music, Celtic musical influences are also scattered across northern France, USA, England, northern Spain, Canada, Wales and beyond. Crammed with swirling fiddles, flutes, pipes, harps, guitars and mandolins performed by some of the best musicians from across

who emerged in the 1960s when tango nuevo was really new

accompanied by his bluesy acoustic guitar

'Sini Vals' (or 'Grey Waltz') opens with a sombre instrumental passage that sounds almost funeral-istic

The distinctive sound of the slide guitar is an intrinsic feature in blues

or dangling from their rear-view mirrors

Those released on Brunswick – including ‘Peggy Sue’

aumlngpolska is a swirling variant of the Swedish 3/4 polska dance

Tau (1908 - 2004) was born in Samoa and raised in Hawaii

but since the arrival of radical Islamists intent on stamping out indigenous music

The first musette accordionists of the 1920s and early 1930s made people dance in the shady dance halls of the Bastille area

this Rough Guide celebrates this burgeoning and most captivating of musical scenes

'round and warm but tense with forward momentum' 4****stars