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Aunt music: how the lost sounds of Great Aunt Mirry were unlocked | Musique Non Stop

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Thursday, December 24, 2020

Aunt music: how the lost sounds of Great Aunt Mirry were unlocked

Musician Tom Fraser has reclaimed a late relative’s musical legacy, thanks to the chance find of a scratchy record on a doorstep

The musician Tom Fraser’s memories of his Great Aunt Mirry are few. “I remember her once on the sofa, just sort of being quite a jolly little old lady,” he says. “And I went to her funeral, I remember that.”

It was a long time after her death that he came to learn of another side of Mirry’s life. A box of belongings, left on the street outside his grandmother’s house in Notting Hill, held a record that suggested she was more than just a jolly little old lady.

It just felt right, playing on this woman's music who I'd never met, from over 60 years ago

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by Laura Barton via Electronic music | The Guardian

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