MARIA DUARTE recommends a remarkable study of the friendship between a Palestinian and a Pakistani, broken by a hostile state
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IT HAS been another good year for fans of folk music with interesting albums from some newer artists as well as veteran performers often with specific themes.
The Rosie Hood Band explored themes of nature and struggles for women’s rights in A Seed of Gold, including a stirring version of Bread and Roses. Honey and the Bear’s Away Beyond the Fret looked at the history of their home county of Suffolk and famous residents like Elizabeth Garrett Anderson.
The history of struggle in the Highland Clearances is also told by Mairead Green and Rachel Newton in Anna Bhan.
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