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THE WIGAN Diggers’ Festival last Saturday was an absolute triumph. A brilliant celebration of the ideas of Diggers’ leader Gerrard Winstanley, raised in the town, it links his pioneering socialist ideas at the time of the English Revolution of 1649 to the struggles of today.
It was a great honour to bring my band Barnstormer 1649 to take part and to play the songs I have written about that vital period in history to the most appropriate audience possible.
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