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  1. Fairport Convention are an English folk rock band, formed in 1967 by guitarists Richard Thompson and Simon Nicol, bassist Ashley Hutchings and drummer Shaun Frater (with Frater replaced by Martin Lamble after their first gig). [1] They started out influenced by American folk rock, with a set list dominated by Bob Dylan and Joni Mitchell songs ...

  2. May 21, 2024 · The Fairport Convention legend was forged between 1967 and 1979 – 12 years, 16 albums, umpteen line-ups and four exhausted people at the end of it. In August 1980, the last line-up – Simon Nicol, Dave Swarbrick, Dave Pegg and Bruce Rowland – reunited for a day in a farmer’s field in Cropredy, Oxfordshire, establishing the iconic ...

  3. Mar 29, 2018 · March 29, 2018 by sw. Fairport Convention: A Tale in Hard Time (03/28/77) Fairport Convention was a British folk-rock group whose best work was cut between 1968 and 1969, with singer Sandy Denny and guitarist and singer Richard Thompson. Their albums, Fairport Convention (What We Did on Our Holidays), Unhalfbricking, and Liege & Lief, are ...

  4. Jan 29, 2022 · Fairport Convention have had more members than Everton and Watford’s recent managerial roll-call combined and they play a Dublin show this evening in the auspicious surrounds of St Patrick’s ...

  5. Feb 26, 2020 · It’s perhaps safest to say that Fairport Convention hasn’t just influenced English folk-rock, even if in all its glory they have enhanced it beyond belief. What this standout band has done is ...

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  6. Jan 2, 2024 · Along with Richard Thompson, Ashley Hutchings and Shaun Frater, guitarist Simon Nicol formed Fairport Convention in 1967, and he’s the only original member in the current line-up. In 2020 – marking the release of 39th album Shuffle And Go – he told Prog about the band’s humble beginnings, their role as musical pioneers and their ...

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  8. Jan 29, 2022 · By any measure, it was a period of prodigious creativity. Between June 1968 and December 1969, Fairport Convention released their first four albums — and changed the course of music both in Britain and further afield. By John Meagher By any measure, it was a period of prodigious creativity. Between June 1968 and December 1969,…

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