The bard celebrates two other fine practitioners of the art, and laments a lost brewer
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‘Songs consecrated to truth and liberty’
PETER FROST remembers Norma Waterson, the doyen of British folk song, who died on January 30 2022
(L to R) Martin Carthy, Norma Waterson and Chris Parkinson
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This right-wing conspiracy theory is used to justify the coercive measures against gender, race and labour rights that best serve capitalism, attests GAVIN O’TOOLE
KENNY MONROSE recommends a new exhibition that highlights the significance of Black British music
ANGUS REID is bowled over by an exuberant film about the making of Keith Jarrett’s legendary concert
MARIA DUARTE, FIONA O’CONNOR and ANDY HEDGECOCK review Savage House, Enzo, Madfabulous, and Erupcja
CHRIS SEARLE recommends a work of love and deep admiration for a great musician
NORMA WATERSON MBE, one of the country’s finest, most emotive and versatile singers has died of pneumonia aged 82. Born in Hull in 1939, she was orphaned early and raised by grandmother Eliza Ward.
The Watersons’ first album Frost and Fire changed British folk music forever. It came out in 1965, the year I first heard the group at a Daily Worker fundraiser — just one year before the Worker would become today’s Morning Star.
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