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f you were out on the wiley, windy moors of Bodmin last July you might have spotted Ms Amy Birks. She was the one in the Victorian period dress – made by her seamstress mum – singing and dancing as she filmed the video for . The dramatic and catchy single from her debut solo album , was of course inspired by the Daphne du Maurier novel of the same name. Birks’ plangent voice and the piano and stringled arrangement will be familiar to those who enjoyed the soundworld of Beatrix Players, her Prog Award-winning baroque-pop trio with pianist Jess Kennedy and cellist Amanda Alvarez. So let’s get the sad news out of the way up front: the three are now all pursuing their own paths, and the

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