STEVE JOHNSON recommends a protest album with a harder edge than many in the genre
Lady Maisery, Cecil Sharp House London
10th anniversary of top folk trio marked in style
INSPIRED BY WOMEN: Lady Maisery
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Fiery words from the Bard in Blackpool and Edinburgh, and Evidence Based Punk Rock from The Protest Family
MATTHEW HAWKINS is mesmerised by a performance that dissolves the line between audience and performer
MATTHEW SHARPE recommends the essays of a Renaissance politician that instruct and unnerve after 400 years
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CELEBRATING their 10th anniversary, Lady Maisery — Hazel Askew, Hannah James and Rowan Rheingans — have been working on adapting songs by other women that have inspired them over the years.
Not all have yet been given a public airing but on this night they provided space for compositions from two of their heroes, Tracy Chapman and Bjork.
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