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Glynd, East Sussex
THE modern music festival can descend into an exercise in highly commercial nostalgia for old rockers and their fans. But some old acts are like rare gems that deserve new audiences.
On the Glynde estate in Sussex, hundreds gathered in fevered excitement in a huge tent as Ethiopian jazz legend Mulatu Astatke in a warm, soft voice introduced his next song, Freedom.
With his international band of top-flight musicians (trumpet, sax, cello, conga player, flute, double bass and drummer), what followed lifted that lucky audience into a state of mesmerised transcendence.
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