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Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. When Fairport Convention electric fiddle player Dave Swarbrick fell in love with an Australian girl in the early '90s, he remembered ...
Violinist, singer, songwriter, and beloved British folk-rock legend Dave Swarbrick has died at 75. Swarbrick released several solo albums and collaborated with an array of other artists ...
NEW YORK — Dave Swarbrick, a fiddler who electrified the British folk tradition as a member of the band Fairport Convention, died Friday. He was 75. His death was announced on his website.
Come all ye: Dave Swarbrick and Sandy Denny share the mic Swarbrick could sing mirthfully. “Angel Delight” – which commemorates the Hertfordshire pub where the band was staying when a lorry crashed ...
Musician Dave Swarbrick, best known for his work with influential folk group Fairport Convention, has died at the age of 75. Known as "Swarb", the musician performed mainly on the violin and wrote ...
Having said this, English and Celtic folk music are different in ways I cannot quite describe. Our perception may be too colored by movie soundtracks and popular treatments of the island's folk music.
Influential folk musician Dave Swarbrick has died at the age of 75, his family have announced. Swarbrick was best known for his work as a violin player with Fairport Convention, and was one of the ...
Dave Swarbrick, the musician best known for his work with folk group Fairport Convention, has died aged 75. A virtuoso violinist, Swarbrick played with some of the greatest folk musicians of the ...
Swarb' played with British folk greats such as Sandy Denny, Ewan MacColl and Bert Jansch Musician Dave Swarbrick, best known for his work with influential folk group Fairport Convention ...
LONDON (Reuters) - English folk violinist Dave Swarbrick, a former leading member of the influential 1970s group Fairport Convention, has died at the age of 75, the band's website announced on Friday.