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Friday, May 14 2010

Now Hear This!: Robin Aigner (Brooklyn, NY)

Brooklyn's Robin Aigner writes engaging and emotive history-vignettes that blends Old Time folk, mid-century country-and-western and Eastern European music with the strains of the contemporary singer-songwriter. She is also one of America's most unfairly undiscovered musicians.


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