Cambridge Folk festival | Folk review

Cherry Hinton HallNatalie Merchant has changed direction again. It's little more than two months since she toured Britain, backed by just acoustic guitars and a cello, reworking songs from her epic Leave Your Sleep album, on which she performed with well over a hundred musicians. Now the former 10,000 Maniacs singer was back with a versatile country band, and the result was magnificent. The new songs, written for her daughter, match her own sturdy melodies in an extraordinary variety of styles a...

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