The Imagined Village | Folk review

Queen Elizabeth Hall, LondonThe Imagined Village have become a lot better by becoming more ­conventional. When they started out, playing in a large tent in the mudbath that was ­Womad 2007, they were ­almost ­frantically ­experimental in their ­attempts to ­reinterpret ­traditional songs for a ­multicultural, 21st-­century Britain. ­Under the ­guidance of ­Simon ­Emmerson, of Afro Celt Sound ­System fame, they mixed music with ­multimedia effects, ...

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