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Fairport Convention

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Fairport Convention are a British folk rock band. [1]

147 relations: "Babbacombe" Lee, A Sailor's Life, A&M Records, Acoustic music, Al Stewart, Alan Simon (musician), AllMusic, American folk music, Angel Delight (album), Anne de Bretagne (rock opera), Ashley Hutchings, Bass guitar, BBC, BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards, Billboard 200, Birmingham, Bob Dylan, British folk rock, Broughton Castle, Bruce Rowland (drummer), By Popular Request, Cathy Lesurf, Child Ballads, Chris Leslie (musician), Chris While, Concept album, Cropredy, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, Dan Ar Braz, Dave Mattacks, Dave Pegg, Dave Swarbrick, David Rea (musician), Dirty Linen, Drum kit, English Folk Dance and Song Society, Excalibur (rock opera), Expletive Delighted!, Fairport Convention (album), Fairport's Cropredy Convention, Festival Bell, Folk music, Folk rock, Fortis Green, Fotheringay, Frank Skinner, Full House (Fairport Convention album), Gerry Conway (musician), Giles, Giles and Fripp, Gladys' Leap, ..., Gloucester, Glyn Johns, Golders Green, Gottle O'Geer, Hampshire, Hertfordshire, Iain Matthews, If You Gotta Go, Go Now, In Real Time: Live '87, Intracerebral hemorrhage, Island Records, Isle of Wight Festival, Jefferson Airplane, Jerry Donahue, Jethro Tull (band), Jewel in the Crown (album), Joe Boyd, John Babbacombe Lee, John Peel, Joni Mitchell, Jools Holland, Judy Dyble, Liege & Lief, Liner notes, Love Chronicles, Lulu (singer), M1 motorway, Maartin Allcock, Mandolin, Martin Lamble, Matty Grooves Records, Matty Groves, Meet on the Ledge, Melvyn Bragg, Middle Earth (club), Mike Harding, Moat on the Ledge: Live at Broughton Castle, August '81, Mothers (music venue), Myths and Heroes, Nine (Fairport Convention album), Now Be Thankful, Old New Borrowed Blue, Over the Next Hill, Pentangle, Polydor Records, Putney, Ralph McTell, Ray Foulk, Record Collector, Red & Gold, Ric Sanders, Richard Thompson (musician), Rising for the Moon, Rolling Stone, Rosie (album), Rough Trade Records, Royal Festival Hall, Sandy Denny, Sense of Occasion, Seth Lakeman, Shoot Out the Lights, Simon Nicol, Sir Patrick Spens, Steeleye Span, Strawbs, Symphony Hall, Birmingham, Tam Lin, The Albion Band, The Band, The Bonny Bunch of Roses, The Bonny Bunch of Roses (album), The Byrds, The Cropredy Box, The Five Seasons, The Grease Band, The Half Moon, Putney, The Kinks, The Wood and the Wire, Tinnitus, Tipplers Tales, Top of the Pops, Trader Horne (band), Traffic (band), Transatlantic Records, Trevor Lucas, UFO Club, Unhalfbricking, Vertigo Records, What We Did on Our Holidays, Whippersnapper (band), Who Knows Where the Time Goes?, Who Knows Where the Time Goes? (Fairport Convention album), Winchester, Woodworm Records, XXXV (album), 1969 in music, 50:50@50. Expand index (97 more) »

"Babbacombe" Lee

"Babbacombe" Lee is the seventh album by English folk rock group Fairport Convention.

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A Sailor's Life

"A Sailor’s Life" (Roud 273; Laws K12) is an English language folk song which describes the attempt of a young woman to find her lover, a sailor.

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A&M Records

A&M Records was an American record label founded as an independent company by Herb Alpert and Jerry Moss in 1962.

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Acoustic music

Acoustic music is music that solely or primarily uses instruments that produce sound through acoustic means, as opposed to electric or electronic means; typically the phrase refers to that made by acoustic string instruments.

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Al Stewart

Alastair Ian Stewart (born 5 September 1945) is a British singer-songwriter and folk-rock musician who rose to prominence as part of the British folk revival in the 1960s and 1970s.

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Alan Simon (musician)

Alan Simon (born 3 July 1964) is a French folk-rock musician and composer, best known for his rock operas performed with noted rock musicians guesting.

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AllMusic

AllMusic (previously known as All Music Guide or AMG) is an online music guide.

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American folk music

The term American folk music encompasses numerous music genres, variously known as traditional music, traditional folk music, contemporary folk music, or roots music.

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Angel Delight (album)

Angel Delight is the sixth album by the British folk-rock band Fairport Convention.

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Anne de Bretagne (rock opera)

Anne de Bretagne is a rock opera by Alan Simon, based on the life of Anne of Brittany.

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Ashley Hutchings

Ashley Stephen Hutchings, MBE (born 26 January 1945) is an English bassist, vocalist, songwriter, arranger, band leader, writer and record producer.

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Bass guitar

The bass guitar (also known as electric bass, or bass) is a stringed instrument similar in appearance and construction to an electric guitar, except with a longer neck and scale length, and four to six strings or courses.

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BBC

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster.

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BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards

The BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards celebrate outstanding achievement during the previous year within the field of folk music, with the aim of raising the profile of folk and acoustic music.

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Billboard 200

The Billboard 200 is a record chart ranking the 200 most popular music albums and EPs in the United States.

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Birmingham

Birmingham is a city and metropolitan borough in the West Midlands, England, with an estimated population of 1,101,360, making it the second most populous city of England and the United Kingdom.

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Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan (born Robert Allen Zimmerman, May 24, 1941) is an American singer-songwriter, author, and painter who has been an influential figure in popular music and culture for more than five decades.

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British folk rock

British folk rock (sometimes called electric folk) is a form of folk rock which developed in the United Kingdom from the mid 1960s, and was at its most significant in the 1970s.

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Broughton Castle

Broughton Castle is a medieval fortified manor house in the village of Broughton which is about two miles south-west of Banbury, Oxfordshire, England on the B4035 road.

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Bruce Rowland (drummer)

Bruce Rowland (22 May 1941 – 29 June 2015) was an English rock drummer best known for his memberships of The Grease Band and folk rock band Fairport Convention.

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By Popular Request

By Popular Request is the 26th studio album by British folk rock band Fairport Convention, released in January 2012.

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Cathy Lesurf

Cathy Lesurf, born 1953, is a British folk music singer-songwriter who was brought up in Stevenage, Hertfordshire.

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Child Ballads

The Child Ballads are 305 traditional ballads from England and Scotland, and their American variants, anthologized by Francis James Child during the second half of the 19th century.

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Chris Leslie (musician)

Christopher Julien Leslie (born 15 December 1956 in Banbury, Oxfordshire, England) is a British folk rock musician.

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Chris While

Chris While (born 1956) is a British songwriter, singer and musician, known particularly for her vocals and live performances.

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Concept album

A concept album is an album in which its tracks hold a larger purpose or meaning collectively than they do individually.

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Cropredy

Cropredy is a village and civil parish on the River Cherwell, north of Banbury in Oxfordshire.

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Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young

Crosby, Stills & Nash (CSN) is a vocal folk rock supergroup made up of American singer-songwriters David Crosby and Stephen Stills and English singer-songwriter Graham Nash.

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Dan Ar Braz

Dan Ar Braz (born Daniel Le Bras on 15 January 1949 in Quimper) is a Breton guitarist-singer-composer and the founder of Héritage des Celtes, a 50-piece Pan-Celt band.

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Dave Mattacks

David James "Dave" Mattacks (born 13 March 1948, Edgware, Middlesex, England) is an English rock and folk drummer.

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Dave Pegg

Dave Pegg (born 2 November 1947) is an English multi-instrumentalist and record producer, arguably most visible as a bass guitarist.

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Dave Swarbrick

David Cyril Eric Swarbrick (5 April 1941 – 3 June 2016) was an English folk musician and singer-songwriter.

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David Rea (musician)

David Rea (pronounced "ray") (October 26, 1946 in Akron, Ohio – October 27, 2011 in Portland, Ore.) was an American folk guitarist, singer, composer and songwriter.

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Dirty Linen

Dirty Linen was a bi-monthly magazine of folk and world music based in Baltimore, Maryland.

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Drum kit

A drum kit — also called a drum set, trap set, or simply drums — is a collection of drums and other percussion instruments, typically cymbals, which are set up on stands to be played by a single player, with drumsticks held in both hands, and the feet operating pedals that control the hi-hat cymbal and the beater for the bass drum.

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English Folk Dance and Song Society

The English Folk Dance and Song Society (EFDSS, or pronounced 'EFF-diss') was formed in 1932 when two organisations merged: the Folk-Song Society and the English Folk Dance Society.

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Excalibur (rock opera)

Excalibur is a three-part "Celtic rock opera" written and directed by Breton folk-rock musician Alan Simon, the first part of which premiered in 1998, and was released as an album in the following year under the French title Excalibur, La légende des Celtes.

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Expletive Delighted!

Expletive Delighted! is the 15th studio album by folk rock band Fairport Convention.

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Fairport Convention (album)

Fairport Convention is Fairport Convention's debut album.

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Fairport's Cropredy Convention

Fairport's Cropredy Convention (formerly Cropredy Festival) is an annual festival of folk and rock music held on the edge of the village of Cropredy in Oxfordshire, England.

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Festival Bell

Festival Bell is the 25th studio album by British folk rock band Fairport Convention, released in January 2011.

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Folk music

Folk music includes both traditional music and the genre that evolved from it during the 20th century folk revival.

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Folk rock

Folk rock is a hybrid music genre combining elements of folk music and rock music, which arose in the United States and the United Kingdom in the mid-1960s.

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Fortis Green

Fortis Green is a ward in the extreme northwestern corner of the Borough of Haringey, north London.

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Fotheringay

Fotheringay was a short-lived British folk rock group, formed in 1970 by singer Sandy Denny on her departure from Fairport Convention.

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Frank Skinner

Frank Skinner (born Christopher Graham Collins; 28 January 1957) is an English writer, comedian, TV and radio presenter, and actor.

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Full House (Fairport Convention album)

Full House, released in 1970, is the fifth album by folk rock group Fairport Convention and was their first album without a female vocalist, as Sandy Denny had left to form Fotheringay.

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Gerry Conway (musician)

Gerald Conway (born 11 September 1947) is an English folk and rock drummer/percussionist, best known for having performed with the backing band for Cat Stevens in the 1970s, Jethro Tull during the 1980s, and currently a member of Fairport Convention as well as his side projects.

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Giles, Giles and Fripp

Giles, Giles and Fripp were an English rock group, formed in Bournemouth, Dorset in August 1967.

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Gladys' Leap

Gladys' Leap is the 14th studio album by Fairport Convention originally released in August 1985.

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Gloucester

Gloucester is a city and district in Gloucestershire, England, of which it is the county town.

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Glyn Johns

Glyn Thomas Johns (born 15 February 1942) is an English musician, recording engineer and record producer.

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Golders Green

Golders Green is an area in the London Borough of Barnet in England.

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Gottle O'Geer

Gottle O'Geer (credited to "Fairport" and to "Fairport Featuring Dave Swarbrick" in the US) is the eleventh studio album by English folk rock band Fairport Convention.

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Hampshire

Hampshire (abbreviated Hants) is a county on the southern coast of England in the United Kingdom.

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Hertfordshire

Hertfordshire (often abbreviated Herts) is a county in southern England, bordered by Bedfordshire to the north, Cambridgeshire to the north-east, Essex to the east, Buckinghamshire to the west and Greater London to the south.

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Iain Matthews

Iain Matthews (born Iain Matthew McDonald, 16 June 1946) is an English musician and songwriter.

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If You Gotta Go, Go Now

"If You Gotta Go, Go Now" (sometimes subtitled "(Or Else You Got to Stay All Night)") is a song written by Bob Dylan in 1964.

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In Real Time: Live '87

In Real Time: Live '87 is an album by folk rock band Fairport Convention.

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Intracerebral hemorrhage

Intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH), also known as cerebral bleed, is a type of intracranial bleed that occurs within the brain tissue or ventricles.

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Island Records

Island Records is a British-Jamaican record label that operates as a division of Universal Music Group (UMG).

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Isle of Wight Festival

The Isle of Wight Festival is a British music festival which takes place annually on the Isle of Wight in Newport, England.

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Jefferson Airplane

Jefferson Airplane, a rock band based in San Francisco, California, was one of the pioneering bands of psychedelic rock.

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Jerry Donahue

Jerry Donahue (born September 24, 1946, Manhattan, New York City) is an American guitarist and producer primarily known for his work in the British folk rock scene as a member of Fotheringay and Fairport Convention as well as being a member of the rock guitar trio The Hellecasters.

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Jethro Tull (band)

Jethro Tull are a British rock band formed in Blackpool, Lancashire in 1967.

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Jewel in the Crown (album)

Jewel In The Crown is the 18th studio album by folk rock band Fairport Convention which is viewed by many as the best record produced by the line-up which had been formed in 1985 for the one-off project Gladys' Leap.

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Joe Boyd

Joe Boyd (born August 5, 1942) is an American record producer and writer.

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John Babbacombe Lee

John Henry George Lee (1864 – c. 19 March 1945), better known as John "Babbacombe" Lee or "The Man They Couldn't Hang", was an Englishman famous for surviving three attempts to hang him for murder.

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John Peel

John Robert Parker Ravenscroft, (30 August 1939 – 25 October 2004), known professionally as John Peel, was an English disc jockey, radio presenter, record producer and journalist.

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Joni Mitchell

Roberta Joan "Joni" Mitchell, CC (née Anderson; born November 7, 1943) is a Canadian singer-songwriter.

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Jools Holland

Julian Miles "Jools" Holland, OBE, DL (born 24 January 1958) is an English pianist, bandleader, singer, composer and television presenter.

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Judy Dyble

Judith Aileen Dyble, (pronounced Die-bull), (born 13 February 1949) is a British singer-songwriter, most notable for being a vocalist and a founding member of Fairport Convention and Trader Horne.

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Liege & Lief

Liege & Lief is the fourth album by the English folk rock band Fairport Convention.

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Liner notes

Liner notes (also sleeve notes or album notes) are the writings found on the sleeves of LP record albums and in booklets which come inserted into the compact disc jewel case or the equivalent packaging for vinyl records and cassettes.

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Love Chronicles

Love Chronicles is the second studio album of Scottish folk artist Al Stewart, released in September 1969.

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Lulu (singer)

Lulu Kennedy-Cairns OBE (born Marie McDonald McLaughlin Lawrie; 3 November 1948) is a Scottish singer-songwriter.

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M1 motorway

The M1 is a motorway in England connecting London to Leeds, where it joins the A1(M) near Aberford, to connect to Newcastle.

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Maartin Allcock

Maartin Allcock (born 5 January 1957 as Martin Allcock), is a multi-instrumentalist musician and record producer.

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Mandolin

A mandolin (mandolino; literally "small mandola") is a stringed musical instrument in the lute family and is usually plucked with a plectrum or "pick".

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Martin Lamble

Martin Francis Lamble (28 August 1949 – 12 May 1969) was the drummer for British folk rock band, Fairport Convention, from just after their formation in 1967, until his death in the band's van crash in 1969.

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Matty Grooves Records

Matty Grooves Records is a record label which was started by the members of Fairport Convention in 2004, when Woodworm Records was put into hold.

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Matty Groves

"Matty Groves" is a Border ballad probably originating in Northern England that describes an adulterous tryst between a man and a woman that is ended when the woman's husband discovers and kills them.

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Meet on the Ledge

"Meet on the Ledge" is a song by British folk rock band Fairport Convention.

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Melvyn Bragg

Melvyn Bragg, Baron Bragg, (born 6 October 1939), is an English broadcaster, author and parliamentarian.

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Middle Earth (club)

Middle Earth (formerly Electric Garden Club) was an influential hippie club in London, UK in the mid-to-late 1960s, following on from the UFO Club after it was closed down as a result of police pressure and the imprisonment of its founder John 'Hoppy' Hopkins.

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Mike Harding

Mike Harding (born 23 October 1944) is an English singer, songwriter, comedian, author, poet, broadcaster and multi-instrumentalist.

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Moat on the Ledge: Live at Broughton Castle, August '81

Moat on the Ledge: Live at Broughton Castle, August '81 is a live folk rock album by Fairport Convention.

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Mothers (music venue)

Mothers (formerly the Carlton Ballroom) was a club in the Erdington district of Birmingham, West Midlands, during the late 1960s and early 1970s.

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Myths and Heroes

Myths and Heroes is the 27th studio album by British folk rock band Fairport Convention, released in January 2015.

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Nine (Fairport Convention album)

Nine is the ninth album by the British folk rock group Fairport Convention and, according to Allmusic, is their most uneven.

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Now Be Thankful

"Now Be Thankful" is a 1970 single by Fairport Convention released by Island Records (WIP 6089, September 1970).

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Old New Borrowed Blue

Old New Borrowed Blue is the 19th studio album by folk rock band Fairport Convention, although for this release, they were billed as "Fairport Acoustic Convention" as it was the band's first all-acoustic album in 29 years.

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Over the Next Hill

Over the Next Hill is the 23rd studio album by the band Fairport Convention, released in 2004.

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Pentangle

Pentangle (or The Pentangle) are a British folk-jazz band with an eclectic mix of folk, jazz, blues and folk rock influences.

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Polydor Records

Polydor is a British record label and company, that operates as part of Universal Music Group.

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Putney

Putney is a district in south-west London, England in the London Borough of Wandsworth.

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Ralph McTell

Ralph McTell (born Ralph May, 3 December 1944) is an English singer-songwriter and acoustic guitar player who has been an influential figure on the UK folk music scene since the 1960s.

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Ray Foulk

Raymond "Ray" Foulk MA, Dip Arch, ARB (born Raymond Ian Barnes Foulk), is an English architect, author, environmentalist, art collector, exhibition curator and rock music festival promoter/organiser.

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Record Collector

Record Collector is a British monthly music magazine.

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Red & Gold

Red & Gold is the 16th studio album by folk rock band Fairport Convention.

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Ric Sanders

Richard 'Ric' Sanders (born 8 December 1952, in Birmingham, West Midlands) is an English violinist who has played in jazz-rock, folk rock, British folk rock and folk groups, including Soft Machine and Fairport Convention.

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Richard Thompson (musician)

Richard Thompson, OBE (born 3 April 1949) is an English singer, songwriter, and guitarist.

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Rising for the Moon

Rising for the Moon is the tenth studio album by the British folk-rock band Fairport Convention, released in 1975.

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Rolling Stone

Rolling Stone is an American monthly magazine that focuses on popular culture.

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Rosie (album)

Rosie is the eighth studio album by folk-rock outfit Fairport Convention, released in 1973.

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Rough Trade Records

Rough Trade Records is an independent record label based in London, England.

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Royal Festival Hall

The Royal Festival Hall is a 2,500-seat concert, dance and talks venue within Southbank Centre in London.

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Sandy Denny

Alexandra Elene MacLean Denny (6 January 1947 – 21 April 1978) was an English singer-songwriter who was lead singer of the British folk rock band Fairport Convention.

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Sense of Occasion

Sense of Occasion is the 24th studio album by British folk-rock veterans Fairport Convention, released in February 2007.

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Seth Lakeman

Seth Bernard Lakeman (born 26 March 1977) is an English folk singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist, who is most often associated with the fiddle and tenor guitar, but also plays the viola and banjo.

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Shoot Out the Lights

Shoot Out the Lights is the sixth and final album by British husband-and-wife rock duo Richard and Linda Thompson.

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Simon Nicol

Simon John Breckenridge Nicol (born 13 October 1950) is an English guitarist, singer, multi-instrumentalist and record producer.

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Sir Patrick Spens

"Sir Patrick Spens" is one of the most popular of the Child Ballads (No. 58) (Roud 41), and is of Scottish origin.

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Steeleye Span

Steeleye Span are an English folk rock band formed in 1969.

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Strawbs

Strawbs (or The Strawbs) are an English rock band founded in 1964.

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Symphony Hall, Birmingham

Symphony Hall is a 2,262 seat concert venue in Birmingham, England.

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Tam Lin

Tam (or Tamas) Lin (also called Tamlane, Tamlin, Tambling, Tomlin, Tam Lien, Tam-a-Line, Tam Lyn, or Tam Lane) is a character in a legendary ballad originating from the Scottish Borders.

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The Albion Band

The Albion Band, also known as The Albion Country Band and The Albion Dance Band, were a British folk rock band, originally brought together and led by musician Ashley Hutchings.

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The Band

The Band was a Canadian-American roots rock group formed in Toronto, Ontario in 1968 by Rick Danko (bass guitar, vocals), Garth Hudson (keyboards, saxophone), Richard Manuel (keyboards, vocals), Robbie Robertson (guitar, vocals), and Levon Helm (drums, vocals).

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The Bonny Bunch of Roses

"The Bonny Bunch of Roses" (Roud 664, Laws J5) is a folk song written by an unknown balladeer from the British Isles, presumably with Irish sympathies.

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The Bonny Bunch of Roses (album)

The Bonny Bunch of Roses is the 12th studio album by Fairport Convention.

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The Byrds

The Byrds were an American rock band, formed in Los Angeles, California in 1964.

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The Cropredy Box

The Cropredy Box is an album by Fairport Convention recorded at their annual live concert in Cropredy, Oxfordshire, England to celebrate the band's thirtieth anniversary in 1997.

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The Five Seasons

The Five Seasons is the 17th studio album by folk rock band Fairport Convention.

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The Grease Band

The Grease Band was a British rock band that originally formed as Joe Cocker's backing group.

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The Half Moon, Putney

The Half Moon is a public house and music venue on Lower Richmond Road in Putney, London.

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The Kinks

The Kinks are an English rock band formed in Muswell Hill, North London, in 1964 by brothers Ray and Dave Davies.

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The Wood and the Wire

The Wood and the Wire is the 21st studio album released in 2000 by folk rock band Fairport Convention.

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Tinnitus

Tinnitus is the hearing of sound when no external sound is present.

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Tipplers Tales

Tipplers Tales is the 13th studio album by Fairport Convention, released in 1978; recorded in only ten days, it was the last album the band recorded for Vertigo.

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Top of the Pops

Top of the Pops, also known as TOTP, is a British music chart television programme, made by the BBC and originally broadcast weekly between 1 January 1964 and 30 July 2006.

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Trader Horne (band)

Trader Horne was a British duo consisting of multi-instrumentalist and former Them keyboard player and vocalist Jackie McAuley and former Fairport Convention lead vocalist Judy Dyble.

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Traffic (band)

Traffic were an English rock band, formed in Birmingham, in April 1967 by Steve Winwood, Jim Capaldi, Chris Wood and Dave Mason.

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Transatlantic Records

Transatlantic Records was a British independent record label.

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Trevor Lucas

Trevor George Lucas (25 December 1943 – 4 February 1989) was an Australian-born and United Kingdom-based folk artist, a member of Fairport Convention and one of the founders of Fotheringay.

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UFO Club

The UFO Club (pronounced "You-foe") was a famous but short-lived UK underground club in London during the 1960s.

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Unhalfbricking

Unhalfbricking is the third album by the British folk rock band Fairport Convention and their second album released in 1969.

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Vertigo Records

Vertigo Records is a record company, which originated in the United Kingdom.

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What We Did on Our Holidays

What We Did on Our Holidays (released as Fairport Convention in the United States) is the 1969 second album by the band Fairport Convention.

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Whippersnapper (band)

Whippersnapper was an English folk band formed in 1984, consisting of Dave Swarbrick (fiddle, mandolin, vocals), Chris Leslie (fiddle, mandolin, vocals), Kevin Dempsey (guitar, vocals) and Martin Jenkins (mando-cello, flute, vocals).

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Who Knows Where the Time Goes?

"Who Knows Where the Time Goes?" is a song written by the English folk-rock singer and songwriter Sandy Denny.

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Who Knows Where the Time Goes? (Fairport Convention album)

Who Knows Where the Time Goes? is the 20th studio album released in 1997 by folk rock band Fairport Convention.

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Winchester

Winchester is a city and the county town of Hampshire, England.

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Woodworm Records

Woodworm Records was a record label created in 1979 to enable the British folk-rock band Fairport Convention to release their album Farewell Farewell.

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XXXV (album)

XXXV is the 22nd studio album by Fairport Convention, subtitled "The 35th Anniversary Album" celebrating the band's existence from 1967-2002.

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1969 in music

List of notable events in music that took place in the year 1969.

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50:50@50

50:50@50 is the 28th studio album by British folk rock band Fairport Convention, released in January 2017 to mark the band's 50th anniversary.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairport_Convention

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