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Gigspanner Big Band on “Turnstone”: Folk Album of the Year 2025 Nominee

Gigspanner Big Band on “Turnstone”: Folk Album of the Year 2025 Nominee

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The Turnstone is an inquisitive bird that, as it name suggests, likes to overturn stones and seaweed in its search for food. That’s how the members of the Gigspanner Big Band see their hunt for the finest traditional songs to re-arrange, burnish and present for our delight. In this conversation with Matthew Bannister, the band’s Peter Knight, Hannah Martin and John Spiers share the stores behind the songs on their Folk Album of the Year nominated work “Turnstone”- and revel in the musical chemistry which allows the band to improvise much of their free flowing music.

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Superb mix of songs and in-depth discussion of the recording and inspiration for one of the best folk albums of 2025

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