Thursday, March 5, 2026
Songbook: ‘Dove’ with Cymande
Charis McGowan speaks to a British-Caribbean funk band whose slow-burning 1972 ode to peace has become a live favourite and unlikely source of inspiration
Cymande with Steve Scipio (fourth from left) and Patrick Patterson (fourth from right)
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