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This week WorldBeatUK goes in search of… England! Join Glyn Phillips as he celebrates both native and alter-native Englishness in his own idiosyncratic manner on WorldBeatUK by taking a trip round the world of music without ever completely leaving England!
Expect English electro-swing hop, village fete chap-hop, cockney afrocuban jazz, Oxford accordion-meets-Serbian fiddle, Lewisham ska, Herefordshire swamp zydeco, Gloucestershire world fusion, anglo-gambian kora, anglo-Indian vocals, Coventry-goes-cumbia, London soul with a cello - and some bloke with a ukelele!
And of course, a whole heap of English Folk from Faustus, Jon Raven, Kathryn Tickell and Coope, Boyes & Simpson… And, good lord, who’s that in the pith helmet holding a blunderbuss?
It might be the week of England’s Patron Saint, St George, the Queen’s 90th birthday celebrations, Shakespeare’s birthday (and also the 400th anniversary of his death), but WorldBeatUK shows that England is anything but insular!
