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| | WGMA Articles - The Musicians of Rossendale (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13) |
 | | Up in the Forest of Rossendale, between Deerplay Moor and the wild hill called Swinshaw, there is a little, lone valley, a green cup in the mountains, called Dean. |
 | | These are the words of Lancashire author Edwin Waugh on the subject of the composers, singers and instrumentalists whose activities in the Rossendale Valley spanned the period between the 1740s and the 1860s. |
 | | Rossendale still quite frequently rings with Handel's music, albeit perhaps with rather more professional polish than may have been the case in the heyday of the Larks of Dean, although today's musicians can certainly be no more enthusiastic than their forebears. |
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