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Tuesday, October 26, 2010
Red Cross Bards
Last month (September 15th) I took part in Red Cross Bards, an evening of Southwark songs and poems in Redcross Garden. It featured, among others, Nigel of Bermondsey and Vanessa Woolf-Hoyle (pictured above), John Constable and Katy Carr. At the end of the night we moved to the gates of the Crossbones burial ground, where I sang a song inspired by another South London graveyard - Nunhead Cemetery:
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