Wednesday 25 September 2019

FAIRPORT CONVENTION: amplified folk - archive, 1969

In a backstreet in Chiswick, the reformed Fairport Convention are getting ready for their debut at the Festival Hall on Wednesday, when they try the ...

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Fairport Convention is the world’s leading exponent of British Folk Rock, having virtually invented the genre in the late sixties. The band was formed in the mid-sixties by Ashley Hutchings but ..
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