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  Southern Journey (Revisited) review – on the road to America's soul

  Southern Journey (Revisited) review – on the road to America's soulThis talkative documentary retraces the steps of pioneering musicologists Alan Lomax and Shirley Collins 60 years on

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  ‘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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  Shirley Collins: Heart's Ease review – unerring brilliance

  Shirley Collins: Heart's Ease review – unerring brilliance. (Domino)The veteran singer’s comeback really takes wing with this impeccably judged set

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  Shirley Collins - Heart's Ease: A lovingly warm document of a life lived through folk

  For almost four decades, Shirley Collins, an essential voice in the English folk revival of the Sixties and Seventies, fell silent. Newly stricken with dysphonia, her singing voice vanished.But in 2016, she returned with the miraculous Lodestar, her first new album in 38 years. Now, the reinvigorated octogenarian has delivered again. It’s a scholarly album — many of the tracks are interpretations of songs passed down through the generations, some dating back hundreds of years — but there’s no st

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  Tracks of the week reviewed: Evil, Shirley Collins, Sufjan Stevens

  Tracks of the week reviewed: Evil, Shirley Collins, Sufjan Stevens. This week we’ve got ethereal banjo-twanging, a British folk blast from the past, and a gracefully subdued protest anthem

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  Shirley Collins: Heart's Ease review – the voice of a benevolent God

  Shirley Collins: Heart's Ease review – the voice of a benevolent God. (Domino)The folk veteran’s past, present and future come together on this full-hearted record

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  'I want to challenge the toxic side of Englishness': folk legend Shirley Collins on making a comeback at the age of 82

  In the homely living room of a small terraced house hidden away by Lewes Castle in East Sussex, folk legend Shirley Collins is sipping tea wearing a baffled smile. A new film about her extraordinary life, The Ballad of Shirley Collins, is about to be released.

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  Green Man Festival 2017 review: Future Islands, PJ Harvey and Sleaford Mods celebrate its 15th year in Wales

  “I was wondering what sort of crowd would be at Green Man festival on the Thursday,” Anna Meredith tells a packed tent at the very start of the long weekend. Rollo Maughfling, Archdruid of Stonehenge and Britain, has blessed the ground with a Druid ceremony. The Green Man - actually a woman and a Welsh red dragon made of kindling - stands tall in the centre, waiting to be ritually burned on the last night.

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  A sea of brollies and a world of fabulous music at the Cambridge Folk Festival

  A sea of brollies and a world of fabulous music at the Cambridge Folk Festival

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  Has the holiday-camp indie festival had its day?

  In June 2016, two months after one last festival curated by comedian Stewart Lee, ATP announced that it was folding for good. It seemed logical that another promoter would try its hand at what had been a successful model, and in October 2016, the founders of Gateshead’s Tusk festival and shop/label Alt.Vinyl announced the Safe As Milk weekender. Due to take place in Prestatyn Pontins this month, the 3,500-capacity festival was to feature artists such as returning folk godmother Shirley Collins

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