17 January 2023
Interview – Behind The Music. “If there’s one singer I try to emulate, it’s Ella Fitzgerald. I really love the effortless quality of her singing and the way she hits every note bang on even though she’d…
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The Guardian - John Harris
3 August 2022
Feature – 10 reasons Brexit has been disastrous for Britain. The Guardian's John Harris interviews Sarah about why independent musicians who rely on touring for a living have been hit particularly hard by the new post-Brexit…
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Cornish Times
2 June 2022
Feature – Three Cornwall shows for locally-based international singer/songwriter Sarah McQuaid. “I’d urge people, if they’re thinking of coming to any of my gigs, to please buy tickets in advance, because low ticket sales make venues twitchy…
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Irish Music Magazine - Mark Lysaght
May 2022
Feature – The St Buryan Sessions: Sarah McQuaid. “The results are spectacular, clearly inspired and enriched by the location with its real sense of history and context. ... Here, she hones each song down to its core, with…
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Shire Folk - Kevin T. Ward
16 February 2022
Album review – The St Buryan Sessions. “These hauntingly sensitive and spacious solo renditions offer something memorable and affectingly special; literally, her own ‘soul, flesh and bone’, captured in ‘glass, wood and stone’. Dim the lights…
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The Afterword - Vulpes Vulpes
13 February 2022
Live review – Under the Edge Arts. “I heard myself whisper a quiet ‘Wow’ .... You hold your breath as she approaches what sounds like an impossible vocal twist and then effortlessly lands it with perfection. She…
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Cotswold Life
February 2022
Feature – A Warm Welcome To Wotton. “With her new live-in-lockdown album The St Buryan Sessions drawing critical raves and appearing on best-of-2021 lists on three continents, Spain-born, USA- raised singer/songwriter Sarah McQuaid is once again hitting the…
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Fresh On The Net Fresh Faves - Neil March
17 January 2022
Single review – The Tug Of The Moon (The St Buryan Sessions). “Like all her music, the track oozes quality and reminds us, as if we needed reminding, of her stunning talent.”
Radiorock.to - Fulvio Savagnone
13 January 2022
2021 Rewind. “I miei preferiti dell’anno passato” (My favourites of the past year).
https://www.radiorock.to/pages/podcast.php?idpods=6902&podcaster=Fulvio_Savagnone&titolo=&noc=1
Across The Universal Soundscape (Jan 2022)
7 January 2022
Feature – Sarah McQuaid: January & February 2022 UK Tour. “With her new live-in-lockdown album The St Buryan Sessions drawing critical raves and appearing on best-of-2021 lists on three continents, Sarah McQuaid is once again preparing to…
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Now Spinning Best Of 2021
6 January 2022
Top 30 Album and Box Set Releases for 2021. “The music is just perfect for the times we find ourselves in. It’s melancholy, but it’s uplifting. … It’s just a beautiful, beautiful album.”
The Packet - Ryan Morwood
6 January 2022
Feature – Sarah McQuaid gig in Penzance at Acorn Theatre in Cornwall. “Every gig feels like a gift.”
https://www.falmouthpacket.co.uk/news/19828202.sarah-mcquaid-gig-penzance-acorn-theatre-cornwall
RTÉ - Behind The Music
5 January 2022
Interview – Behind The Music. “I make a mean lasagne.”
https://www.rte.ie/entertainment/2022/0105/1269803-behind-the-music-sarah-mcquaid
Americana UK - Video Premiere - Andrew Frolish
4 January 2022
Video Premiere – The Tug Of The Moon (The St Buryan Sessions). “There’s an astonishing richness to Sarah McQuaid’s voice, evident in this ethereal interpretation of ‘Tug of the Moon’ ... The album is a gorgeous…
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Americana UK - Martin Johnson
4 January 2022
Interview – Sarah McQuaid on refreshing her folk vision with The St Buryan Sessions. “Even with three people in the audience it still felt better than it would have felt just sitting at home looking at…
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Country Music News International - Antony Bailey
4 January 2022
Album review – The St Buryan Sessions. “Simply a breath of fresh air into the modern music scene.”
https://countrymusicnewsinternational.com/sarah-mcquaid-the-st-buryan-sessions
Zeitgeist (The Rocker) - Stuart Hamilton (Dec 2021)
31 December 2021
The Last Post – Best of 2021 (No. 1). “There isn’t a moment here that isn’t beautifully executed. You’ll be hard pushed to hear a better acoustic record this year. In fact, you won’t which is why…
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Folk London - Adrian Jones
December-January 2021-22
Album review – The St Buryan Sessions. “There is an audience – it’s you, and you’ve kept shtum in the back pew. It’s an intimate and changing 70 minutes, ending with the silence of this hallowed…
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Songlines - Sophie Parkes
December 2021
Album review – The St Buryan Sessions. “It seems empty churches are made for McQuaid, as her rich, robust vocals are given the space they deserve - and the listener doesn't need to hear the clamour…
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Folk North West - Clive Pownceby
Winter 2021-22
Album review – The St Buryan Sessions. “The McQuaid voice shimmers between elation and melancholy .... Her exceptional phrasing ability conveys a yearning which colours this album’s haunting, almost mesmeric ethos. ... Sarah McQuaid makes music that…
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