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In 2017, the Japanese band Minyo Crusaders released their debut album, Echoes Of Japan (P-Vine, Japan), to great acclaim. The band's reworking and updating of Japanese folk music, or minyo, on a rhythmic bed of Caribbean, Latin and Afrobeat was truly inspired, and perhaps pointed the way for other fusion bands in East and Southeast Asia. The aim was to revive minyo as "music for the people", as quoted by World Music Central.
The iconic art deco building requires repairs before the auditorium can be reopened to the public.
How the teacher/poet became like a Zelig figure across so many swathes of UK culture. Books interview by Sebastian Scotney
SOME of the world's best and most popular traditional jazz sounds come to Ilminster this Friday (16 December) - the perfect way to warm your hearts…
In my digital music library, I have a playlist labeled "country hits of 1962." There are more than 115 songs on this playlist, though only a few can be said to have had any lasting impact on the culture.