I have just returned to Norfolk from folk legend Shirley Collins's illustrated musical talk at the Old Market theatre in Hove.
She is still charismatically radiant at nearly 70. How lucky we are to have such a special lady to recall for us the musical heritage of Sussex, let alone her amazing 1959 adventures working with folklorist Alan Lomax recording the guitar-pickers and blues singers in the segregated Deep South of the US.
Shirley's voice may no longer be the pliant, angelic instrument which broke a million folkies' hearts in her Sixties heyday but we have her records and we still have her.
She is a national treasure.
-David Hanington, Norfolk
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