"to the painter Jill Swarbrick-Banks. They met in 1998 and married at Coventry Register Office the following year. They lived together in Mid-Wales until his death in June 2016. In 2003, he was awarded a 'Gold Badge' by the English Folk Dance and Song Society and the 'Gold Badge of Merit' by the British Academy of Composers and Songwriters. In 2004 he was given a ""Lifetime Achievement Award"" at the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards. At the 2006 Folk Awards he shared with current and past Fairport Convention members when they received an award when their seminal album ""Liege &"
"Dave Swarbrick David Cyril Eric Swarbrick (5 April 1941 – 3 June 2016) was an English folk musician and singer-songwriter. He has been described by Ashley Hutchings as ""the most influential [British] fiddle player bar none"" and his style has been copied or developed by almost every British and many world folk violin players who have followed him. He was one of the most highly regarded musicians produced by the second British folk revival, contributing to some of the most important groups and projects of the 1960s, and he became a much sought-after session musician, which led him throughout his"
"the Mellstock Band. Old Swan Band The Old Swan Band is a long-established and influential English country dance band. Its origins lie in the early 1970s with the English country dance band Oak, one of a tiny handful at that time that combined melodeon with fiddles. Two members of Oak, husband and wife Rod and Danny Stradling (melodeon and vocals), went on to form The Cotswold Liberation Front, which became The Old Swan Band in 1974. They recruited fiddler Paul Burgess, percussionist Martin Brinsford and the Fraser Sisters (Fi and Jo). Fi (short for Fiona) is a fiddle player and"
"then again 10 days later at the North Carolina Azalea Festival. In July, he appeared at the close of Panic's second set at High Sierra Music Festival. The final guest appearances in 2014 were in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, at the Riverside Theater and in Broomfield, Colorado, on November 2. In July 2015, Sanders returned to guest with Widespread Panic in Dallas, Texas, at the Winspear Opera House. Nicky Sanders Nicky Sanders (born August 16, 1979) is a Grammy Award-winning, American fiddle player specializing in Bluegrass music. He is best known for his work with the band Steep Canyon Rangers along with"
"guests Martin Carthy, Peggy Seeger, Pee Wee Ellis and John Kirkpatrick.. Working with the Jason Wilson Band, brought Swarbrick back playing with a significant big group again, contributing to gigs playing around Canada and the UK. British Folk music critic Ken Hunt described the album: ""Head and shoulders, the most eclectic, catholic and coherent musical banquet of 2014 thus far."" Their final studio album together; Kailyard Tales, was released on 12 January 2018. In April and May 2014, Swarbrick completed a 17-venue tour of the UK, supported by folk trio Said the Maiden at his personal request. The tour, organised"
"D'Arcy Broderick D'Arcy Broderick is a Newfoundland-Irish musician who plays fiddle, guitar, mandola, banjo, accordion and mandolin. He is best known as a former member of the popular Irish-Newfoundland bands The Irish Descendants and The Fables. He is currently performing around Newfoundland with the band Middle Tickle. Alongside of him in the band are: William Broderick (Drums), Glenn Hiscock (Mandolin, Fiddle, Vocals), Paul Hiscock (Bass, vocals) and the only remaining original band member Ron Kelly (Guitar, vocals). Glen Hiscock and William Broderick are occasionally absent from the weekly show Middle Tickle plays at Shamrock City Pub. Broderick is also one"
"Lee Dorman during the band's 2006 tour. - Mark Lindsay (Paul Revere and the Raiders) – 1986. <br> - Gary Myrick (Geffen recording artist) – 1986 through 1989. <br> - Bobby Kimball (Toto) – 1989. <br> - Eric Burdon – January 1990 through November 2005. <br> - Spock's Beard – 1993 – current. <br> - The Kings Of Classic Rock - 2007 - 2013. <br> - Rolling Heads - 2010 - current. <br> - Iron Butterfly - 2015 - current. Dave's current bass for Spock's Beard is a custom built hybrid between a Fender and a Rickenbacker. It is an"
"Whippersnapper (band) Whippersnapper was an English folk band formed in 1984, consisting of Dave Swarbrick (fiddle, mandolin, vocals), Chris Leslie (fiddle, mandolin, vocals), Kevin Dempsey (guitar, vocals) and Martin Jenkins (mando-cello, flute, vocals). Swarbrick left the group in 1989, and the band continued as a trio until 1993, with the only album recorded that line-up being ""Stories"". During that time, Dempsey and Leslie released an album called ""Always With You"" as a duo. The band split when Jenkins left the group in 1993. However, they did tour briefly again in 1994. Following Swarbrick's recovery from illness, Whippersnapper toured again as"
"Lief"" was voted 'Most Influential Folk Album of All Time' by Radio 2 listeners. At the 2007 awards Martin Carthy and Dave Swarbrick won the 'Best Duo' Award. At the 2012 Fatea Awards, Swarbrick was awarded The Life Time Achievement Award. Taking account of his early work with the Ian Campbell Folk Group, as well as with Ewan MacColl, A. L. Lloyd and Peggy Seeger, and including his work as a guest musician on the albums of many artists, Swarbrick can be acredited with over 167 album appearances. Walnut Creek (Shirty, 2014) Sources: Dave Swarbrick David Cyril Eric Swarbrick (5"
"folk singer Harvey Andrews, Mike d'Abo, Chris Spedding and was a part-time member of the bands ""Schunge"", Solid Gold Cadillac (with Mike Westbrook and Spedding among others) and Ovary Lodge. Having already contributed additional double bass parts to electric bassist Hugh Hopper's work on the Soft Machine albums ""Fourth"" (1971) and ""Fifth"" (1972), he finally replaced Hopper fully in the band with the release of their album ""Seven"". He used a six-string Fender VI throughout his tenure with the band. In addition to ""Seven"", he can be heard on ""BBC Radio 1971-1974"", ""Bundles"", ""Softs"" and ""Rubber Riff"". Babbington's funk- and"
"the latter's live album ""Show of Hands Live"" (1992). ""New South Wales"" by David Swarbrick, described by Beer as ""probably the most influential fiddler in Britain,"" appears next followed by two original jigs by Ben van Wede, ""The Stone On The Gate/Jiggered."" ""Jiggered"" pays homage to the many squeeze box players that he has played with over the years and the first tune was written for the album. Fairport Convention's Ric Sanders appers with ""As Yet"", inspired by a trip to Slovenia with a middle section written after watching a television program about the 1960s Russian experiments with the Ekranoplus"
"all over the world, including at the Shetland Folk Festival in Shetland, UK, the Orkney Folk Festival in Orkney, UK, and in Ireland, Denmark, Finland and Malaysia. U.S. appearances include the Berkeley Old Time Music Convention, the Alaska Folk Festival, and the Sacajawea Bluegrass Festival. Members of the group also perform as the Foghorn Duo (mandolin and fiddle) and the Foghorn Trio (mandolin, fiddle, and Nadine Landry on guitar). Foghorn Stringband also performs with Dirk Powell as the Dirk Powell Band. The founding members of the band met at The National Oldtime Fiddlers' Contest in Weiser, Idaho in 2000. The"
"in a similar style. Hutchings' restrained but powerful bass style is one of the characteristics of the band in this period. The focus of the band changed with the introduction of Dave Swarbrick into the line up, who brought a virtuosity on the fiddle and a wealth of traditional tunes. This prompted Hutchings to carry out research in the English Folk Dance & Song Society Library at Cecil Sharp House which resulted in the pioneering classic ""Liege and Lief"" (1969), seen by many as the foundation of British folk rock. Hutchings was, however, increasingly unhappy with the direction of the"
"fellow musician and painter Joanna Davies; they live near Crickadarn, Powys. His stepson Reuben Beau Davies is an actor. Favis-Mortlock is also a musician; in 1978 he formed a Banbury-based folk group named after the nearby Rollright Stones, together with Adderbury morris dancer Bryan Sheppard (now a member of The Hookey Band). At one stage, the Rollrights included fellow fiddler Chris Leslie on bass guitar. The group supported Fairport Convention and recorded with Fairport's Dave Pegg. Subsequently, Favis-Mortlock played fiddle with guitarist Frank Underwood, and with the Brighton-based folk-punk band Tricks Upon Travellers. He now plays jazz violin, most recently"
"Nicky Sanders Nicky Sanders (born August 16, 1979) is a Grammy Award-winning, American fiddle player specializing in Bluegrass music. He is best known for his work with the band Steep Canyon Rangers along with banjo player and comedian Steve Martin. Raised in San Francisco, he began studying classical violin at age of five. In his youth, he acted as concertmaster of the Young People's Symphony Orchestra in Berkeley, California. He later attended Berklee College of Music in Boston, Massachusetts, studying classical and jazz performance (violin) as well as 20th-century classical music composition. In 2004, Nicky relocated to Asheville, North Carolina,"
"Ric Sanders for 1992 Cropredy Festival. This meant that for the first time since reforming, the band had a recognized songwriter who contributed significantly to the band's output on the next album ""Who Knows Where the Time Goes?"" (1997), particularly the rousing ‘John Gaudie’. By the time of the 1997 thirty-year anniversary Festival at Cropredy, the new Fairport had been in existence for over a decade and contributed a significant chapter to the history of the band. In 1998, Dave Mattacks moved to the USA and Gerry Conway took over on drums and percussion. Fairport produced two more studio albums"
"the singer, songwriter and guitarist Dave Brock, who is the only remaining original member. They are best known for the song ""Silver Machine"", which became a number three UK hit single in 1972, but they scored further hit singles with ""Urban Guerrilla"" (another Top 40 hit) and ""Shot Down in the Night."" The band had a run of twenty-two of their albums charting in the UK from 1971 to 1993. Dave Brock and Mick Slattery had been in the London-based psychedelic band Famous Cure, and a meeting with bassist John Harrison revealed a mutual interest in electronic music which led"
"Dave counts among his influences Dexter Gordon, Sonny Rollins, and Stanley Turrentine. Dave Babcock was born in Vancouver but moved to Edmonton and graduated from the Grant MacEwan College music program. ""The Return of the Formerly Brothers"", on which Babcock made an appearance, won a 1988 Juno Award for best roots and traditional album. Long John Baldry's ""Right to Sing the Blues"" won the same award in 1996 and featured guests Dave Babcock and Colin James (with whom Babcock has played). Babcock has been a part of the Edmonton Folk Music Festival house band since 1995 and is a member"
"Mike Waskiewicz, drums; Ed Torres, drums, Kevin Dorn, drums and Benji Bohannon, drums. Riverwalk Jazz Riverwalk Jazz was a popular weekly public radio series distributed by Public Radio International that ran from 1989–2012. The series began broadcasting in 1989 and is produced by PVPMedia. The principal performing band on ""Riverwalk Jazz"" is the Jim Cullum Jazz Band. The series co-hosts are bandleader Jim Cullum, Jr. and folklorist and storyteller David Holt. Jim Cullum's Landing Jazz Club on the Paseo Del Rio (San Antonio River Walk) in San Antonio, Texas serves as the venue where most of the hour-long shows are"
"left, and Swarbrick stayed on with the band full-time, excited by the possibilities of performing traditional music in a rock context. His greater maturity, knowledge of folk song, reputation and personality meant that he soon emerged as the leading force in the band and continued to be so for the next decade, encouraging the band to bring in Dave Pegg, another graduate of the Ian Campbell Folk Group, on bass. However, Swarbrick was already beginning to suffer the hearing problems that would dog the rest of his career. The first album of this new line-up, ""Full House"" (1970), although not"
"August 2010. They have since been named the 2011 Band of the Year by the Virginia Tourism Corporation. In 2012 the band released their third album named Prompting the Dapperness. The band stated that the name of the album was inspired by former member Allun Cormier. The band's fourth album, Out of Box, was released in 2015. Folk Soul Revival Folk Soul Revival (also known as FSR) is an American Country music group. Its current members include Daniel Davis (guitar and vocals), Justin Venable (banjo, harmonica, and vocals), Brandon Sturgill (bass and vocals), Chad Light (electric guitar, banjo, pedal stool),"
"music"" day at Butlin's holiday camp in Bognor Regis as the support act for Whippersnapper, the band formed by folk-fiddle superstar Dave Swarbrick following his departure from Fairport Convention. The following year however things really began to take off. In April 1990 they were booked by Rod Stradling to play for the prestigious monthly ""Dance House"" ceilidh at Cricklade, in Wiltshire. Then in August they performed at the massive Sidmouth Folk Week festival, followed shortly afterwards by a trip abroad to play in Dordrecht, which was Hastings ""twin town"" in the Netherlands. Back home, in September they played for one"
"in March 2011. In 2011 the band toured throughout North America, Canada, Denmark, Germany, Italy and the United Kingdom appearing at major folk festivals including Milwaukee Irish Fest, Tønder Festival and Cambridge Folk Festival. They received a nomination for Folk Band of The Year in the Scots Trad Music Awards and performed at the award ceremony in Perth Concert Hall although the award was won by the Battlefield Band. Fiddler Mike Vass joined the band at the end of 2011 and performed his first concert with them at Glasgow's Celtic Connections Festival. The band have released two further studio albums"
"and was sentenced on 6 August 1996 to attend Alcoholics Anonymous meetings, sought counselling, and served 30 days community service on a graffiti-removal work crew. Rick Allen (drummer) Richard John Cyril Allen (born 1 November 1963) is an English drummer who has played for the hard rock band Def Leppard since 1978. He overcame the amputation of his left arm in 1985 and continued to play with the band, which subsequently went on to its most commercially successful phase. He is known as ""The Thunder God"" by fans. Rick Allen was born on November 1, 1963 in Dronfield, Derbyshire to"
"Curtis Hicks of Chattanooga, Tennessee, Clyde Davenport of Monticello, Kentucky, Delmer Holland of Waverly, Tennessee, and Harold Luce of Chelsea, Vermont. Prominent old-time music festivals (some of which also include bluegrass, dance, and other related arts) include the Northern Lights Bluegrass and Old Tyme Music Camp and Festival in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada (established 2005), Old Fiddler's Convention in Galax, Virginia (established 1935), the West Virginia State Folk Festival in Glenville, West Virginia (established 1950), the National Oldtime Fiddlers' Contest in Weiser, Idaho (established 1953), the Mount Airy Fiddlers Convention in Mount Airy, North Carolina (established 1972), Uncle Dave Macon Days"
"without Swarbrick, was taken by the other three remaining members. Ric Sanders was invited to join, along with guitarist, composer, arranger and multi-instrumentalist Maartin Allcock. Pegg was now in two major bands at the same time. The reformed Fairport produced an instrumental album ""Expletive Delighted"" (1986), mainly designed to showcase the virtuosity of Sanders and Allcock. In 1987 Jethro Tull produced their first album for three years, ""Crest of a Knave"", to which Pegg contributed and this was to be followed by an American tour, on which Anderson invited Fairport to support Jethro Tull. Needing an album to promote, Pegg"
"Rick Allen (drummer) Richard John Cyril Allen (born 1 November 1963) is an English drummer who has played for the hard rock band Def Leppard since 1978. He overcame the amputation of his left arm in 1985 and continued to play with the band, which subsequently went on to its most commercially successful phase. He is known as ""The Thunder God"" by fans. Rick Allen was born on November 1, 1963 in Dronfield, Derbyshire to Geoffrey Allen and Kathleen Moore, and started playing drums at the age of nine. He performed in the bands Grad, Smokey Blue, Rampant, and the"
"January 4, 2008 and was interred at Mount Oak Cemetery, near Arab, Alabama. Derrick recorded and toured with the Stanley Brothers and played both fiddle and mandolin on the original sessions of such Hank Williams, Jr. hits as ""All My Rowdy Friends Have Settled Down"" and ""A Country Boy Can Survive"". He has been recognized by The Alabama Music Hall of Fame as an Achiever. He was also a longtime member of Jimmy Martin's bluegrass band 1964–1970 and off and on in the decades that followed. While working with the Jimmy Martin and the Sunny Mountain Boys, Derrick wrote ""The"
"to the lineup in March 2008 and remains in remission. Mark Karan Mark Karan (born January 13, 1955) is an American guitarist and singer, best known for his long-term work with Bob Weir & RatDog. He also leads the band, Jemimah Puddleduck. Karan has played guitar and sung for a number of different artists, including Dave Mason, Huey Lewis, Paul Carrack, Delaney Bramlett, Sophie B. Hawkins, and The Rembrandts. From 1986-1989 he was the guitarist and co-producer for the band Slings & Arrows which included Daniel Levitin on bass. In 1998 he was selected, along with Steve Kimock, to fill"
"the Comstock region of Nevada in 1983. There he gathered a group of northern Nevada musicians and formed the Jeffrey Frederick Band. The lineup consisted of Morgan Huber (bass, mandolin, piano, guitar), Willis Allen (keyboards); Sport Arnold (drums, vocals); Darius (clarinet, sax, guitar), Johnny Fingers (lead guitar), B. B. Morse (later of Willie Nelson's band) (bass, vocals), Tommy Ward lap steel guitar, and the Horn Brothers, Dolph and Rookie Fisher (trombone and trumpet). The Jeffrey Frederick Band became wildly popular among the infamous saloons of Virginia City, the clubs of Reno and Lake Tahoe, and the bars of Dayton, Yerington"
"time and an available studio belonging to Pegg. They decided that they needed some new material to add to the catalogue that had been suspended in 1978. As Swarbrick was unavailable, the selection of traditional tunes was more difficult than for past albums and there was a need for a replacement fiddle player and some vocals. Pegg and Nicol took over arranging duties on an instrumental medley and the band turned to sometime Albion Band members: jazz and folk violinist Ric Sanders and singer-songwriter Cathy Lesurf. They also had the help of ex-member Richard Thompson. Thompson and Lesurf contributed songs"
"Past bands include The Country Gentlemen, Emerson and Waldron, Cliff Waldron and the New Shades of Grass, Seldom Scene (of which he was a founding member), Chesapeake, The Good Deale Bluegrass Band, and John Starling and Carolina Star (which featured three original members of The Seldom Scene). Mike was also a member of the touring bands of Lyle Lovett and Emmylou Harris. He worked with Paul Beard (Beard Guitars) to produce the Beard Mike Auldridge Models of square-neck resophonic guitars (dobro), including an 8-string version. Auldridge died on December 29, 2012, just one day prior to his 74th birthday, at"
"to the Annual National Old Time Country and Bluegrass Festival in Missouri Valley, Iowa. On their second visit to the festival, they were named a Rising Legend. In 2008, band member George Pritchard sang and played a Zydeco-style washboard at the annual Washboard Festival in Logan, Ohio. The Ramblin' Riversiders The Ramblin' Riversiders is a British skiffle band based in Lancashire. It was started in 1956 by teenager Harold Dearden and a group of his schoolboy friends. They had been impressed by the success of Lonnie Donegan's song The Rock Island Line, and they thought they could make similar music."