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“You can make a folk song out of anything”

“These songs represent a map of Scottish social history in the past 50 years”
KARINE POLWART

IT’S August 2018, a sticky summer night at Leith Theatre, and six-time BBC Radio 2 Folk Award winner Karine Polwart has just brought the house down with a nimble reimagining of Biffy Clyro’s “Machines”. “You can make a

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