FOLK WITHOUT BORDERS: HOW LANKUM BREAK MUSIC FROM ITS SILOS
Radie Peat is perplexed by the fact that my call to her seemingly has been routed through the Faroe Islands, the far, far northern archipelago governed by Denmark, lying between Norway and Iceland. It is after all, rather far from here and even a reasonable distance from her base in Dublin. The concertina/harmonium/keyboard player and singer who makes up one quarter of Irish folk band Lankum – or as she’ll explain later, one fifth if you count, as they do, their new album’s p