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‘Burlap Heroes are Saul Bellow’s persons struggling just to exist’
CHRIS SEARLE speaks with US trumpeter NATE WOOLEY
Nate Wooley
These are vivid accounts of people’s experiences of far-right violence along with documentation of popular resistance, says MARJORIE MAYO
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GORDON PARSONS squirms at a production that attempts to update Shakespeare’s comedy to a tale of Premier League football
Above a Gothic bar just down from Brighton station, something spooky is happening, suggests JAMES WALSH
PETER MASON is enthralled by an assembly of objects, ancient and modern, that have lain in the mud of London’s river
MIK SABIERS enjoys the theatrical feminist six piece who have a lot of fun that the audience feeds off as the set rolls on
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I asked him about his new album Ancient Songs Of Burlap Heroes with the Columbia Icefield sextet.
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