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Seth Lakeman

In 2005, Seth Lakeman was reputedly broke and stranded by the side of the road awaiting assistance after his car had broken down when he had a phone call telling him that Kitty Jay - the album he had made for £300 in his brother's kitchen - had been shortlisted for the Mercury Music Prize. From that point he didn't look back. His personable personality coupled with his driving fiddle rhythms and evocative songs built from Dartmoor's rich heritage of myths and legends quickly launched him into mainstream consciousness, dramatically raising the profile of folk music on the way; unt...