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  Norma Waterson obituary

  Norma Waterson obituary. Celebrated singer of traditional English folk music whose embrace of other musical styles won her a wide following

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  Norma Waterson, celebrated British folk singer, dies aged 82

  Norma Waterson, celebrated British folk singer, dies aged 82. Musician acclaimed for work with siblings and husband Martin Carthy in the Watersons had been suffering from pneumonia

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  Carthy folk dynasty appeals for financial support after income ‘dried up’ during pandemic

  Carthy folk dynasty appeals for financial support after income ‘dried up’ during pandemic. Eliza Carthy said her parents Martin Carthy and Norma Waterson were ‘struggling to survive’ after Covid-19 left them without revenues from live performances

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  1980s Glastonbury with a country wedding feel: the poetic charms of Laugharne Weekend festival

  Among the many reasons Dylan Thomas gave for people moving to the tiny Carmarthenshire estuary town of Laugharne, a few remained obscure. Some residents, he believed, had no idea why they had come at all. He described them as “slowly, dopily, wandering up and down the street like Welsh opium eaters, half asleep in a heavy bewildered haze”.

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  Jailhouse rock: how history’s crimes live on in music

  Jailhouse rock: how history’s crimes live on in musicFrom Maggie May to Ronnie Kray, crooks have long inspired songs, as a new book proves Great Train Robber Ronnie Biggs and Steve Jones of the Sex Pistols, the punk bank with whom he recorded the song No One Is Innocent in 1978. Photograph: Moviestore Collection Ltd/Alamy

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  Manchester is a city of live music and good times. That’s why this hurts so much | Carol Birch

  Manchester was never harmless. Creepy men hung around Piccadilly Gardens when I was growing up, the Moors Murderers prowled the streets near my school and it was common knowledge in my classroom that Jimmy Savile was luring little girls into his dressing room at the Dickenson Road studios where Top of the Pops was made before it moved to London. At the old Manchester Sports Guild, a stone’s throw from where the Manchester Arena now stands, there was jazz downstairs and folk upstairs.

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  10 of the UK's best music festivals for folk, jazz, blues and world fans

  Laura Mvula will be playing at Love Supreme festival in East Sussex. Bath international music festival has been superseded by the Bath festival, a multi-arts fest with – so the blurb goes – music and literature at its heart. Martin Carthy and Sam Sweeney unites two of the UK’s greatest folk musicians.

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