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What IS Fairport Convention?

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What IS Fairport Convention?

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Fairport Convention is a british folk-rock band founded in 1967. It’s gone thru numerous changes in members over the years, and even broke up for awhile, but the current line-up has been together since 1985.The members of Tull and Fairport overlap: Dave Pegg plays in both bands, and former Tull keyboardist Martin Allcock is also a core Fairport member. Fairport’s longtime drummer Dave Mattacks played with Tull for the 1992 live gigs, and he appears on the live Tull albumA Little Light Music. Fairport’s violinist Ric Sanders guested on 2 tracks on Tull’sCrest of a Knave. At most 1987 Tull gigs, all the members of Fairport came onstage to play “Skating Away” with Tull. Fairport was also Tull’s opening act for parts of the 1987 and 1988 tours.

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The band Fairport Convention was formed in London in 1967. The band members, at that time, included Ashley Hutchings, Simon Nicol, RT, Shawn Frater (soon replaced by Martin Lamble), Judy Dyble, and Iain Matthews. The band was named after a house owned by the Nicol family, called Fairport. FC is generally considered the originator of folk-rock–that is, electrified music with rock influences that draws on traditional melodies, motifs, and instrumentation. When RT joined the band, the repertoire included covers of songs by North American singer-songwriters (notably Bob Dylan), as well as some originals. To gain some understanding of RT’s early contributions to the band, he is given either full or partial songwriting credit for 5 of the 12 songs on Fairport Convention, recorded when he was still a teenager! With the addition of Sandy Denny, the group began to perform traditional British folk songs such as “Tam Lin” and “She Moves Through The Fair.” There were many personnel changes in the

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