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Bill Laws is the author of sixteen books, including Fifty Railways that Changed the Course of History and Fifty Plants That Changed the Course of History. He has been busking for a couple of years. www.billlaws.com

Monday, 23 July 2012

Three Choirs Festival


Hereford Cathedral in the 1930s
Three Choirs Festival and this year it’s Hereford’s turn to host (an honour shared with Gloucester and Worcester).
The streets are alive with buskers, the highly efficient Mel having emailed everyone an Excel document with names, times and helpful advice: “If your replacement doesn’t show up, keep playing.”)
The Jackhammer blues band did two strong sets over the weekend, so I hear from one passer by. And there’s plenty to look forward to from Pixies and Skittles, the Turnbull Quartet and MJM (?) to that stalwart on the local busking scene Toby Parker. 
Must remember my backing tracks. I forgot them yesterday in Ludlow. Stood there, sax in hand, trying to recall a tune and just gave up in the end. Memory plays strange tricks, especially where music’s concerned.

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