Dave Swarbrick News

PREPARE for a weekend of summer madness - " literally - " when Camp Bestival returns for the third time to Dorset next year.

Today's stars now rock right past the retirement age. How do they do it? And shouldn't some of them stop? Dave Swarbrick, one-time fiddler with Fairport Convention, can laugh about his "death" now.

AN ORMSKIRK man who suffered a brain haemorrhage while on holiday in Florida has said he is lucky to be alive.

A double cassette I found today in a charity shop for a couple of quid. Not sure how rare it is but it says it's an "official bootleg of the 1987 Fairport reunion at Croprety : Oxfordshire". Those taking part were Simon NIcol, Dave Pegg, Dave Mattacks,Ric Sanders, Martin Allcock with guests Ian Anderson, Martin barre, jerry Donahue,Cathy LeSurf, ...

THE fourth Moseley Folk Festival promises another magical late summer weekend for music fans.

THE fourth Moseley Folk Festival promises another magical late summer weekend for music fans.

FOLK music heroes are playing at the first Wat Tyler Folk Festival. The six-hour event gets under way from 1pm at Wat Tyler Country Park, Pitsea Hall Lane, Pitsea, on Saturday, September 5. Acclaimed-duo Martin Carthy and Dave Swarbrick, back together after 14 years, will be topping the bill.

London - The term folk rock has been absent from the vocabulary of the hip and cool for several decades.

Priddy Folk Festival was a sell-out success, with every weekend ticket and every Saturday ticket gone by Friday night.

CRAWLEY Folk Festival has confirmed a string of top acts for this year's event from Friday to Sunday June 26-28 at the Hawth.

Here are ten things you can do today. 1 Whippersnapper, In the 1980s, they were renowned as a folk supergroup with a line-up of ace fiddlers Dave Swarbrick and Chris Leslie, guitarist Kevin Dempsey and guitarist and mandolin player Martin Jenkins.

A FOLK trio will be bringing their experienced musicianship to the Bridgwater Arts Centre on Friday.