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Celebrated folk musicians and poetry complete the line-up on 13 July Celebrated folk musicians Jim Moray and Julie Murphy and poet Shamshad Khan are set to perform at the Heritage Lottery Fund's Who do we think we are? conference at the British Museum on 13 July. The event promises an unrivalled line-up of speakers and performers, offering a unique insight into our understanding of identity in the UK today. Jim Moray He's just twenty-two but he's single-handedly turning the English folk music world on its head. Brought up on folk music and a multi-instrumentalist Jim Moray is a massive talent who has taken songs from English traditional music and re-worked them to create some of the most startlingly original, contemporary recordings to come out of the folk world since the 1970s. At the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards 2004 Jim won the Horizon Award for best newcomer and Best Album for 'Sweet England' on which he has breathed new life into some of the oldest and most beautiful English songs ever written. Julie Murphy Julie was born in London and raised on a musical diet of soul, funk and reggae. She studied painting at Maidstone Art School and then moved to Wales and learned to speak Welsh. Exposed to Appalachian, European and Arabic music she began an affair with folk music that has lasted ever since. She formed Fernhill with her husband Ceri Rhys Matthews in 1996 and continues to record and tour worldwide with the band and as a solo artist. She has also collaborated with Afro Celt Sound System, Dylan Fowler and Robert Plant. Shamshad Khan Shamshad Khan is one of Manchester's most intense and inventive poets. Shamshad can command a stage with a quiet confidence that is a joy to behold. Conceived in Pakistan, born in England, she reflects both cultures with a keen eye and a well-honed pen. Her lyrical, life-affirming poetry has been featured in print, broadcast and live performance. |
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