Curated by Billy BraggThe Opening Act
LEFTFIELD STAGE, GLASTONBURY FESTIVALThe musician-activist invited five fellow singers to join him at the Glastonbury Festival and premiere a selection of new songs inspired by the conflict.
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CloseBritain’s foremost political singer-songwriter, he has been making music for thirty years. Now in his fifties, neither the fight nor the fight songs have left Billy Bragg.
Governments rise and fall, fashions come and go, pop stars are built up and knocked down by a fickle press, and Billy Bragg adapts to survive: orator, entertainer, rabble-rouser, negotiator, leafletter, the fabled ‘big-nosed bard from Barking’, Billy Bragg is many things.
The musician-activist invited five fellow singers to join him at the Glastonbury Festival and premiere a selection of new songs inspired by the conflict.
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