Sparkling in their outfits, personalities and music, Kinnaris provided a stellar hour in the piano based amphitheatre. Their only album to date, Free One, gets a lot of play in the Crawford home, but there's nothing like the exhilaration of live performance. Three fiddles (one of them five-string), mandolin and guitar playing largely self penned tunes. The compositions reflect their Scottish folk roots, and the many other influences they've absorbed, constantly switching tempos, developing themes, moving the melodic lead from instrument to instrument, infected with the clear enjoyment the five derive from playing together. Sparse, lush, romantic and uplifting, the music is underpinned by the imaginative guitar accompaniment of Jenn Butterworth, and her jury-rigged shoe stomp amplification drives the beat in the rockier passages. Kinnaris won a lot of new fans tonight, deservedly.
There are shows, Fringe and otherwise, at the Piandrome every day until 25 August. Well worth making the trip out to Leith to have a look and take in the atmosphere.
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