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Do you have a favorite song or maybe there's a singer you especially like or a musician?

We all love listening to music and part of the reason is how powerful it can be.

Music can make you feel happy, right?

Or sad or make you want to get up and dance.

Today's story will need a harp player whose music was so inspiring, it shook the oceans.

I'm Rebecca Sheer and welcome to Circle Round, where story time happens all the time.

Today our story is called Sobco and the Sea.

In Russia they've been sharing versions of this folktale for centuries.

Some really great people came together to bring you this tale including Max Greenfield

and Lakshmi Singh.

Grown-ups you might recognize Max from the comedy New Girl on Fox as well as the new

FX original series The Assassination of Gianni Versace.

And if you're a public radio fan you know Lakshmi Singh as a newscaster on NPR.

So Circle Round everyone for Sobco and the Sea.

If you travel to the country of Russia you might visit a city called Novgorod and within

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