SPOTLIGHT: Karine Polwart, Master Songsmith

This week in Subscribers Only, MixedTapes highlights a special artist worthy of attention. Next week we return with NEW MUSIC: MARCH, our monthly free-to-all music discovery playlist.

Karine Polwart's music can be soaring or intimate — and sometimes both at once. One of the most lauded musicians in contemporary Celtic folk, her voice is clear as cool water, full of pathos, and her songs are immediate, emotional and considered, effortlessly entwining both personal and political themes.