Multiple award winning Scottish singer and songwriter, Karine has toured on her own and in collaboration with many top musicians from Scotland and beyond. Her collaborative community projects often combine music, science, environment and politics.
Song #2: THE SLAVE’S LAMENT by Robert Burns
and ST MARINA’S LULLABY (Cypriot traditional)
A collaboration between me and my Greek-Cypriot friend Alkinoos Ioannidis and his band -- and the essence of what I think of as Burns -- international, humane, open-hearted.
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Song #1: I BURN BUT I AM NOT CONSUMED
This song and its intro were performed by Polwart at the opening concert of the 2017 Celtic Connections Festival, the day before the first inauguration of Donald Trump. It speaks of his immigrant mother from the Isle of Lewis and tells what the 3-billion-year-old rocks might say about this child of Lewis.
