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Thread #148869   Message #3460572
Posted By: GUEST,henryp
02-Jan-13 - 06:17 PM
Thread Name: Review: Radio 2 Folk Show
Subject: RE: Review: Radio 2 Folk Show
Perhaps Roy Harper is presenting or receiving an award.

From Cambridge News

Cambridge Folk Festival 2012: Saturday. Paul Kirkley finds the festival's questing spirit in ruder health than ever.

"I'm the folk singer today," Roy Harper told the main stage crowd, perhaps a touch churlishly, on Saturday evening. You can kind of see what he means: the top-down reinvention of folk music over the last 15 years or so must be quite bewildering for someone like Harper: an unreconstructed, stubbornly immovable 60s protest singer still belting out anti-Vietnam anthems with nothing more showy than an acoustic guitar and a voice that was in danger of leaving Cherry Hinton Hall entirely stripped of wallpaper.

From Emma Hartley's Glamour Cave

Here's a scene I may have imagined.
G: And then I knew...
ME: (Caught up) What? What did you know?
G: It's going to have to be a lifetime achievement award for Roy Harper this year.
ME: Oh Genevieve! How could you?
(Wailing, fade to blackout)