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Band on the Run | Alf Alderson | France, Pays Basque, Vitoria-Gasteiz

If you consider that surfers and musicians would probably make a strong showing in a millennium list of the ten most unreliable types of people in the world - well, it was never going to be an easy ride

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Caribbean Music and Carnivals | James Henderson

There is surely nothing to compare with the power of music to enforce a sense of place. The sights of a Caribbean visit - an airburst of palm-fronds etched on a sunset, or a veranda view over distant islands

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Going Underground | Alf Alderson | United Kingdom, Wales, Brecon

We were scrabbling, crawling, shuffling, scratching, creeping and butting our way along one of the labyrinth of passageways in Eglwys Faen cave

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Hungarian Csikos | Jasper Winn | Hungary, other regions of Hungary, Hungarian Plains

In the dusk we heard the distant snare-drum roll of hooves. A herd on the horizon galloped towards where we stood by a water-crane, a barn and a small hut

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Looking For Wolfgang | Campbell Jefferys | Austria, Upper Austria, Salzburg

He uttered his first cries here, stumbled his first steps, tinkled his first ivories and plucked his first strings; Salzburg can truly claim to be the home of Mozart.

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North African Music | Mark Hudson | Morocco, Marrakech, Marrakech

At two-thirty precisely, the lights go down, a trio of drummers set up a loping beat for a searing rustic violin, and a large man in a white gown and a demure-looking, rather pretty woman take the stage

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Northern Tango | Norman Miller

Exploring Finland's strange fascination for tango, from the world's second-largest tango festival to strange rural dance halls

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The Sacred Music of Fez | William Dalrymple | Morocco, Northern Morocco, Fez

Today, almost all the mosques, madrasas, bazaars and caravansarais than Ibn Arabi knew eight hundred years ago are still extant, and mostly quite unchanged

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Travelling Riverside Blues | Graham Reid

This is the crossroad where bluesman Robert Johnson allegedly made his pact with the Devil on a lonely midnight some time around 1930

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