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Reg Meuross and Cohen Braithwaite-Kilcoyne with Karen Gledhill
Devoran Acoustic Sessions
SOME aspects of events, past or present can be too appalling to contemplate, so ambitious work such as Reg Meuross’s song cycle Stolen From God has a significant job to do leading our attention into and through the realities of a part of history that still has enormous implications in the contemporary world: the slave trade.
It does it well.
Meuross is currently touring the piece in the UK. His performance at Devoran was with Cohen Braithwaite-Kilcoyne on anglo concertina, melodeon and voice. Other tour dates will also feature Suntou Susso on kora, and different narrators.
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