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Culture: Those Medieval modernists; Early music gets groovy with the Dufay Collective. Christopher Morley reports.

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From: The Birmingham Post (England)
Date: 20010509
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Byline: Christopher Morley

'Groovy' musicians who 'can sing as well as they play' their music which sets 'feet tapping and even hips swaying'; what do the members of medieval music group the Dufay Collective feel about being on the receiving end of such pop-style press comment?

'For an early music group, I think that's quite refreshing!' says spokesman Bill Lyons. 'It's better than being assigned to those rather dusty shelves that a lot of groups tend to feel they should belong on.

'We've always gone quite strongly on the image that we present. It's always quite ...

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