Ave Maria (And Three Hosannas!): Maria Muldaur at Ronnie Scott’s, London
Cynthia Rose, NME, 1983
FIVE YEARS ago New Years Eve, I watched Maria Muldaur seize a packed house at the closing of the gigantic Armadillo World Headquarters – last of the great American rock dance-halls – and lift them right out of their footwear.
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