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Triptych returns
The five-day, three-city music festival announces its strongest line-up yet. Mark Robertson picks out
some highlights.
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8 THE LIST I ‘i ‘.'§:'
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‘txoealrst Denise Johnson now flesher;
out the current line up.
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Odetta Martin Luther King called her 'the Queen of Arriencarr folk musmf and while Orietta Holmes iprcturert, lettr mag, he in her 70s she t‘OllilllthS to delight as one of America's, foremost folk. blues and gosoel singers.
The Sun Ra Arkestra The'r illustrious leader may have shuffled oft back to Saturn in the early 908 but the Arkestra keep on keeping or: With the great free Jazz explorers legac;
Biz Markie, Big Daddy Kane and Roxanne Shante Some like to say that they're doing rt Old skoOi but can really walk that walk. This three. hot-sever. are the real deal. Hip hop Characters made larger than life who between them have produced a whole raft of ftoorfrllers and party starters.
‘Respect me first. Then I‘ll show you what I‘ve done with my wife.’
‘We chatted too.‘
‘There’s a bit of butt sniffing and crotch scratching. I wouldn’t want it any other way.‘
‘What is that fat pig doing here?’
‘Sometimes when my hair is a mess and I can’t find the right outfit, I feel 300 pounds}
‘I had nightmares that the chinchillas came alive and were crawling on my head.’
‘She must have timed it wrong because when she tried to slap the clay on my bits it was too crumbly to work properly. She did keep the cast, but I don’t think it stands up to the likes of Hendflxs.
‘I can skin a deer and a pig and a snake and rabbits.’