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Given how badly the term folk, as a genre of music, seems to have been misappropriated over the past decade or so, it’s always nice to see somebody bringing the term back to its roots - especially here in the UK, which in many ways provided the birthplace of that particular sound. Sure, the barn dance might no more readily be associated with Americana, but that doesn’t mean that this Kent-based outfit don’t have an impressive handle on it; they’re a five-piece who eschew the need for any kind of percussion and instead soundtrack their shows with guitars, saxophones, trumpet, bass melodeons, fiddle and even synths, as well as - of course - some harmonic vocals, too. They’ve toured across Europe in the past, but their bread and butter is the UK folk festival circuit, on which they’ve long been a staple - expect standards of the genre, both faithful and reinterpreted, as well as original material from some of the group’s studio albums, including Danse Macabre and their latest, untitled full-length effort, that was released back in 2005.