Disappointment for Dave Swarbrick fans – the Fairport Convention stalwart will not be able to appear at the Hinckley ACT Festival of Music 2011 on Sunday 29th May 2011 at the Sketchley Grange Hotel in Hinckley.
Dave Swarbrick - the Fairport Convention stalwart is unable to appear at the Hinckley ACT Festival of Music 2011
Dave Swarbrick was due to be one of a number of high profile artists scheduled to appear at what promises to be one of the Midland’s leading musical events of 2011. More announcements about guest artists will appear shortly.
Dave helped create greater interest in British traditional music and was highly influential within mainstream rock. After 1970 he emerged as Fairport Convention’s leading figure and guided the band through a series of important albums until its disbandment in 1979.
Post Fairport Convention
Since then he has played in a series of smaller, acoustic units and engaged in solo projects which have maintained a massive output of recordings, a significant profile and have made a major contribution to the interpretation of traditional British music.
In 2004 he was given a Lifetime Achievement Award at the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards. In 2006 Swarb started touring again with ex-Fairporter Maartin Allcock and Kevin Dempsey as Swarb’s Lazarus; they appeared at the Cropredy Festival.
In 2007 Martin Carthy and Dave Swarbrick won the ‘Best Duo’ Award at the BBC Radio Two Folk Awards.
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