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OUT and about to promote their must-hear new album Personae, Kathryn Roberts and Sean Lakeman win the audience over as much with their candour as the engrossing music they offer up.
Theirs is an intimate set, allowing close-up appreciation of Roberts’s extraordinary vocal range and interpretative skill and Lakeman’s startling guitar mastery.
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