Fairport added traditional English music and a renewed sense of purpose to their already diverse elements, and emerged triumphant. Here on “Reynardine” or “Tam Lin” the kind of musical ...

Less well known however, is Tam Lin, a fairy knight who roams the ... featured in a new wave of popular culture in Britain. Fairport Convention, an English folk-rock band, recorded an electrifying ...

That England, I think, is represented in Fairport Convention’s Liege & Lief ... they own land (many versions of ‘Tam Lin’ name him as an aristocrat, enslaved in turn by the Queen of the Faeries); men ...

If Fairport Convention's fortieth anniversary tour conjures ... Goes underlined the sense of lost voices, the reinvigorated Tam Lin and evergreen Matty Groves confirmed that Fairport still know ...

Fairport Convention’s Liege & Lief was the third album the group ... their own unique interpretation of ancient songs of sex, death and magic, such as ‘Tam Lin’ and ‘Matty Groves’. That murderous ...

But after a tragic road crash, Fairport Convention holed up in the countryside ... and blast out classics like “Matty Groves” and Tam Lin” with electric instruments was, for some listeners ...

More than 20 musicians have passed through the ranks of Fairport Convention--most notably Richard Thompson and Sandy Denny--and the quintet's two newest members are drummer Gerry Conway ...

At 31 years and counting, Fairport Convention is an institution, as well as the founder and foremost exponent of a distinctly British variety of folk rock. Weathering a multitude of personnel ...

An annual well attended festival of folk and rock music held on the edge of the village of Cropredy, and run by Fairport Convention. The 2024 festival will take place at Cropredy near Branbury from ...

Fairport's Cropredy Convention opened its gates at 14:00 BST on Thursday. The festival, which takes place in Cropredy, near Banbury, has been staged in the area annually since 1980. This year's ...