First Things Forst: What's On Our Mids This Week: Martyn Bennett: Gone, but Not Forgotten
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A CHEERFUL gathering at Edinburgh's Coda Music last week launched It's Not the Time You Have ..., a compilation of recollections about the late piper, fiddler, composer and manic mixer Martyn Bennett. The book is a lively, if inevitably poignant, insight into his no- holds-barred approach to music and to life in general.
Bennett died in January last year, aged just 33, following a long and valiant battle with cancer, but the emphasis of both book and gathering was on the slight, dreadlocked figure's larger-than-life- presence and indelible impact on those who knew and worked with him.See the full content of this document
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First Things Forst: What's On Our Mids This Week: Martyn Bennett: Gone, but Not Forgotten
Compiled by his mother, the folklorist, singer and author Marg...
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