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Gypsy LoverOur tale begins, romantically enough, underneath the flickering festoons and tented towers of a circus. Faith was working with traditional English troupe Giffords Circus as an all singing all dancing accordionist act. Her creative cause took her to the Balkans to seek a local Romani violinist to join the circus next tour. Fate and fortune led her path to the Serbian village of Grabovica and to the violin maestro Branko. Without a shared language with

freeing the musical soul to roam

roots and pop

I first briefly met the then-teenage Dónal O'Connor at an Irish festival in Valence in the south of France in 1998 and shortly afterwards bumped into him in a shop in Belfast

From its underground roots in the nightclubs of 1970s New York

master accordionist and guitarist

infusing it with a brooding bluesy feel

Nowadays they are more likely to be found stomping the stage floors of Europe's most prestigious concert halls with Amsterdam's Concertgebouw and London's Southbank Centre already ticked off the list

The quartet's main task was to marry the improvisation of Carnatic music to folk traditions of Scandinavia

at the age of 19

Remarkably Henry Thomas’ projected birthdate of 1874 predates that of Blind Lemon Jefferson by two decades and gives us an idea of what rural black music sounded like before the turn of the twentieth century

Samba has created his own style of Songhai blues by adapting his playing from a traditional string instrument setting to an electric guitar

has been aptly described as an ‘inland sea’

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