Festival

Performer: Fairport Convention
Distributor: Infinity Entertainment Gr

Notes: This double-CD set records the festival that marked Fairport Convention's 35th anniversary. With contributions from surviving members and ex-members, the band took the opportunity to revisit many of the highlights of its back catalog. Judy Dyble, who preceded the late Sandy Denny as the band's singer, performs "One Sure Thing," Ian Matthews, who went on to a successful career of his own after his Fairport apprenticeship, sings "Time Will Show the Wiser," and the similarly well-fixed Richard Thompson takes over the lead vocal on "Jack O' Diamonds." Thompson's touching and strangely prophetic "Meet on the Ledge" provides an appropriate closer to this emotional rollercoaster of a set.

The definitive British folk-rock band, Fairport Convention took the traditional music of England and injected it with electricity and rock energy, sparking a whole musical movement in the U.K. in the late 1960s and early '70s. The late-'60s incarnation of the band was bursting with talent, including singer Sandy Denny and guitarist Richard Thompson, both of whom went on to lauded solo careers. Even after Denny and Thompson's departures, though, Fairport never slowed down. Through numerous personnel changes, they soldiered on for decades with their singular brand of folk-rock, becoming the Grand Old Men of the genre.

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