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  Folk’s unsung heroines – the sisters who saved English music

  Folk’s unsung heroines – the sisters who saved English music. My new play Folk focuses on two Somerset sisters whose – uncredited – recall of traditional songs helped Cecil Sharp save the music from extinction. It’s an ambivalent legacy

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  Evening Standard

  Folk review: folk music play hits a bum note

  2/5 This stiff production addresses questions about who owns a nation’s culture with clunking obviousness

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  The Telegraph

  Musics Lost and Found by Michael Church review: the mad romance of song-collecting

  “All the collectors in this book have been romantics,” says the author of this fascinating and moving study of folk-song collectors from the 18th century to the present day, from all around the world. “All have acted as a bridge between cultures. All have treasured rare melodies and styles, as naturalists treasure endangered flora and fauna.”

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  The Telegraph

  Tony Hooper, co-founder of folk-rockers the Strawbs who left the band on brink of stardom – obituary

  Tony Hooper, who has died aged 81, was a guitarist, singer, songwriter, and founder member of the folk-rock band the Strawbs, but quit when they were on the brink of the big time to pursue a more conventional career in engineering and publishing. As a teenage schoolboy in Twickenham he had formed the band with Dave Cousins after they had bonded over a mutual passion for American folk and blues music. They would buy import records at the specialist shop Dobells, go to gigs by visiting Americans s

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  The Independent

  ‘What’s royalty got to do with folk music?’ – The amazing story of Cecil Sharp House

  This place feels very important, but I don’t know why yet,” said Billy Bragg, wandering into Cecil Sharp House in 1986. Many of us have felt something similar, slipping from busy north London, though the English country garden, into the UK’s first dedicated folk arts centre.First opened in 1930, the building holds all the tension of the 20th century’s battles over the definition of “folk music” and who it belongs to. Visitors will feel it in the architectural push-pull between blunt, right-angle

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