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Raising the Dragon
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The weekend before last we put on a French and Breton folk dance here on Dartmoor with Red Dog Green Dog and Wod (gig photos by Rima Staine...
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Blowzabella
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Back when I was an undergraduate in the late eighties, my friend Chris made me compilation tapes from his vast vinyl collection of psych, pr...
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Crwth
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Here's an instrument I'd play if I had my life again, the Welsh medieval crwth (pronounced crooth). In this video Cass Meurig , one...
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Andy and Cliff
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As some of you know, aside from Telling the Bees I play pipes with hurdy-gurdy maestro, Cliff Stapleton. Our music is a kind of organic tra...
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