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Warming weather and hot tunes are on tap this week to thaw thick blood and to refresh cultural gullets parched by the pandemic. Either sitting down or standing up, get ready to get those feet tapping, hips rolling and shoulders shaking with new local and national song releases on offer from CAFE 541 this week.  Local releases 'Kudhara,' Ratie D Right from the start, performer Ratie D’s December 2020 “Ink & Melodies” draws listeners in with a joyous collision of percussion, strings, horns and lyrics. Sung in English and her native Chivanhu language, the Zimbabwean Eugenean Ratie Dan...

Gunnel Lindblom in The Seventh Seal, 1957, directed by Ingmar Bergman. Photograph: TCD/Alamy The Swedish film director Ingmar Bergman was renowned for writing complex and demanding roles for women such as Harriet Andersson, Bibi Andersson and Liv Ullmann. Further down the cast list, but prized by the director throughout his career, was Gunnel Lindblom, who has died aged 89. She appeared in several of his best-known pictures, including The Seventh Seal (1957), in which she was the young mute woman who accompanies a knight’s squire (Gunnar B...