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Tom Jones and Michael Ahern on keyboards, the tunes are livelier, bounder, and more uptempo but the music remains the delightful blend that is uniquely Trapezoid.

The group’s sound, style and selections can’t be squeezed into the standard musical category. The quintette warbles a cappella bluegrass, croons a gentle Japanese lullaby, picks, fiddles and strums traditional numbers, quickens the pace for jazz, slows it down again for low down blues, finds a brogue for an Irish folk song and a swing beat for contrapuntal improvisation.

But this is not the usual eclectic collection of strings that sounds like 10 different bands on 10 different numbers. Trapezoid takes an original or a traditional song - be it from Ireland or the

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