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Gigspanner Big Band: Turnstone review – an elegance unmatched in British folk
The multi-talented six-piece soar on their most accomplished album yet, led by the exceptional fiddle-playing of Peter Knight
They bring a freewheeling but precise presence to songs like the 17th-century Suffolk Miracle and Child ballad Hind Horn, while Silver Dagger is dressed in anguish for its doomed lovers. There is a southern American hymn, What Wondrous Love, a gypsy reel, Betsy Williams, and a stately treatment of Stephen Foster’s Hard Times Come Again No More. The variations of its multi-talented cast are part of its charm, though Knight’s playing – by turns sprightly, yearning and melancholic – shines brightest.
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