Spiro, Passing Clouds, Dalston

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Spiro, Passing Clouds, Dalston

Bristol quartet mix folk with avant-garde, classical and punk

by Russ CoffeyWednesday, 09 December 2009

Jane HarbourDave Gouldie

A self-styled “string quartet comprising a guitar, fiddle, mandolin and accordion” - welcome to the topsy–turvy world of Spiro. A world where nothing is quite what it seems. A world where up is down, black is white, and folk is, well, kind of avant-garde.

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