The bard celebrates two other fine practitioners of the art, and laments a lost brewer
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TRADEMARK BERET: Richard Thompson and Zara Phillips play Bristol Beacon
[Amanda Whittington-Walsh]
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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
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CHRIS SEARLE recommends a work of love and deep admiration for a great musician
Richard Thompson Band,
Bristol Beacon
A BRITISH concert by Richard Thompson is an occasion and there was a real feeling of excitement in the wide-open vestibules of this newly refurbished (and renamed) venue.
This powerful performance began with the sinuous Freeze from new LP Ship to Shore, Thompson sporting a fetching pink Stratocaster and his familiar starred beret, alongside Taras Prodaniuk on bass, Zak Dobbs on guitar and mandolin, Zara Phillips on vocals and acoustic guitar and the legendary Dave Mattacks on drums.
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