The Grandfathers of English Folk Rock
featuring Simon Nicol on guitars and vocal, Dave Pegg who joined in 1969 on bass, mandolin and vocals, Ric Sanders on violin. Multi-instrumentalist Chris Leslie on vocals, violin, mandolin, bouzouki, whistles and harmonica and Gerry Conway on drums and percussion.
APPEARING LIVE AT
The Robin 2, Bilston, Wolverhampton, Friday 20th May 2016
Adv. £20.00 on Door £22.50 Doors Open 7.30pm
Box Office 01902 401211 Book On-line www.therobin.co.uk
Plus support Sunjay
show starts at 7.45pm
2016 will see Fairport celebrating 49 years of music making and doing what they love best -treading the boards! Every spring they undertake a nationwide U.K. tour which this year features them playing material from their latest album “Myths and Heroes” along with old favourites drawn from their extensive repertoire. The band are credited with creating British folk –rock music with their iconic album Liege and Lief which B.B.C. radio 2 listeners voted ‘The most influential Folk album of all time” They also received a Lifetime Achievement award from the B.B.C.
The bands line up is founder member Simon Nicol on guitars and vocal, Dave Pegg who joined in 1969 on bass, mandolin and vocals, Ric Sanders on violin. Multi-instrumentalist Chris Leslie on vocals, violin, mandolin, bouzouki, whistles and harmonica and Gerry Conway on drums and percussion.
The band also organise their own festival—“Fairport’s Cropredy Convention” which takes place this year on august 11th 12th and 13th and attracts an audience of around 20,000 people from the world over.
An evening of great music and very entertaining and amusing interludes is guaranteed!
Fairport Convention are a national treasure. The Times.
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