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Cassandra Voices :: Musician of the Month

I grew up in a rambling country house with damp bubbling from the walls and ghosts lurking in the locked ...

HotPress

"Northern Irish singer-songwriter Bróna McVittie has dropped her ethereal third album The Woman in the Moon. Known for her eerie, ...

Monolith Cocktail

"This album is like being able to travel back in time to days of childhood innocence. A time when things ...

Irish Music Magazine

"This album is yet another example of the high art of Bróna McVittie" Séan Laffey ...

Folk Radio UK

"Bold and audacious in ways you wouldn’t expect, Bróna McVittie‘s The Woman in the Moon is probably her most progressive folk album to ...

Fatea Magazine

"So, after 2020's The Man In The Mountain we now greet The Woman In The Moon. Irish singer songwriter Bróna ...

Folk Radio UK Premiere

"Her interpretation of folk music is truly visionary, vital and refreshing. Bróna has steadily built a reputation for her eerie, ...

The Guardian Top 10 in 2021

No. 5 in The Guardian's 10 Best Folk Albums of 2021. "The ambient fringes of folk flower on this small-label ...

Songwriting Magazine

"Not content with just reinterpreting the past, the County Down artist is adding her own folk tales to the genre" ...

Shire Folk

"A masterpiece of musicianship and literary imagination" Jonathan Roscoe ...

Folk Radio UK Top 100

The Man in the Mountain - Folk Radio UK Best 100 Albums of 2020 "McVittie is an avid experimentalist, willing ...

The Guardian Top 10 in 2020

No. 4 in The Guardian's 10 Best Folk Albums of 2020 "Beginning like a lost soundtrack from a late 60s ...

★★★★ Folk/Tumble

"With so many different styles and influences juxtaposed, artistically referenced and intelligently refined, this album clearly defines Bróna McVittie as ...

Folking

"It would be easy to pigeonhole her alongside other folktronica artists such as Beth Orton, Caribou and Tunng, the latter ...

★★★★ Mojo

"McVittie's voice is clear, hypnotic and uncannily timeless, floating between Broadcast's Trish Keenan and Clannad's Moya Brennan. A fantastic, exploratory ...

Mourne Observer

"Renowned singer-songwriter Bróna McVittie has drawn on Irish mythology and local Mourne folklore for inspiration for her new album The ...

Folk Radio UK

"The Man In The Mountain’s predecessor was one of the best releases of 2018, but somehow Brona McVittie has surpassed ...

Monolith Cocktail

Beautifully conceived and imaginative, Bróna McVittie and her subtle foils on this eloquent lush songbook push Celtic imbued folk gently ...

★★★★ The Guardian

JUDE ROGERS'S FOLK ALBUM OF THE MONTH (September 2020) "You’re put in the place of a bird navigating wide open ...

Irish News

"It happens less and less but there are those magic occasions when you hear a piece of music for the first ...

Penny Black Music

"Once more, Brona McVittie establishes her well deserved place in contemporary music as she weaves together deep and mysterious aspects ...

Irish Music Magazine

"Music is such a powerful tool for storytelling and we've so many wonderful folk tales in Ireland" Irish Music Magazine ...

The Scotsman

"There were electronic echoes a-plenty also in the opening set from Co Down singer and harpist Brona McVittie, accompanied by ...

R2 Magazine

“An album full of inventive arrangements that is well worth a listen” Ian Croft, R2 Magazine ...

Irish Music Magazine

“Fantastic solo debut” Eileen McCabe, Irish Music Magazine ...

fROOTS

“Memorably evokes her native Co Down” Sarah Coxson, fROOTS ...

Penny Black Music

“McVittie’s music goes some way to showing us what Yeats was searching for” Nicky Crewe, Penny Black Music ...

Lauren Laverne

“I can’t stop listening to this…it’s a really special album!” Lauren Laverne, BBC Radio 6 Music ...

★★★★ Mojo

“McVittie takes her inspiration from W.B. Yeats’s idea of a kind of Celtic phantasmagoria which can be felt but remains ...

The Séance

“Excellent folk opus” Pete Wiggs, The Séance ...

Songwriting Magazine

“A debut album of serious quality. Inventive modern folk” Duncan Haskill, Songwriting Magazine ...

FATEA Magazine

“On We Are the Wildlife, Brona’s timeless and tireless psycho-geographic quest for the meaning and nature of ‘the Celtic heart’ is ...

Dancing About Architecture

“A debut album which answers that much asked question “Where now for folk music?”…” Dave Franklin, Dancing About Architecture ...

Shire Folk Magazine

“McVittie has made an album that is uniquely and distinctly her own. Without doubt one of the most inventive and ...

Folk Radio UK

“A profoundly powerful and quietly ambitious statement and one of the most distinctive debuts you are likely to hear all ...

Gideon Coe

“Well worth investigating” Gideon Coe, BBC Radio 6 Music ...

★★★★ The Independent

“A rare, and rarefied, beauty” Andy Gill, The Independent ...

★★★★ The Guardian

“Beautifully embroidered folk…sweetness and bite…A stimulating debut” Jude Rogers, The Guardian ...

8/10 Uncut

“Heavenly debut…boldly experimental…Simply gorgeous” Nigel Williamson, Uncut Magazine ...

Underground of Happiness

“Pastoral folk music through a kosmische filter” Conor O’Toole, Underground of Happiness ...

The Sunday Experience

"Relocates you to another place, somewhere magical and far from the fury and decay of modern day life" Mark Barton, ...

Underground of Happiness

“Pleasingly dreamy folk tones but with a strong and haunting undercurrent of otherworldliness...persuasive vocals up close and hushed...unexpected bass intrusions ...

Across the Line

"Nature reverberates wonderfully in an alchemy of traditional and contemporary instrumentation, making for an exquisite listen from this post-folk electronic ...

Folk Radio UK

“Stunning…gorgeous single. There’s no denying her sheer talent as a beautiful singer and harpist which is why we’ve chosen both ...
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