Karine Polwart Trio: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert

April 10, 2019, Suraya Mohamed Scottish singer, songwriter and essayist Karine Polwart seldom comes stateside. She prefers to limit air travel in order to minimize her carbon footprint. She took exception, however, to fly from Edinburgh to New York City to participate in the Carnegie Hall Migrations festival, a celebration of the history of the movement of people all around the world. Polwart and her brother, guitarist Steven Polwart and multiinstrumentalist, Inge Thomson, then escaped New York for a day to play the Tiny Desk here in Washington, D. C. Polwart writes songs about hope, music that harnesses spiritual power and lyrics that address important social justice themes. Stories of human emotion and the human experience are also commonplace as in the first tune, There s a wind in from the desert Red dust blows across the sun It bleeds into the evening We watch it from the garden Your hair glints in the strange yellow light We let go of all our fighting Ophelia Her second song at the d