Short Biography
Fairport Convention are often credited with being the first English electric folk band. Affected by numerous personnel changes throughout its first decade, Fairport Convention was temporarily disbanded in 1979 but played annual reunion concerts until they reformed in 1985. Since then, they have enjo... Read More...
Record producer Joe Boyd has stories to tell about Dylan, Nick Drake ... - Packet Online Record producer and former Princeton resident Joe Boyd will read from his book White Bicycles: Making Music in the 1960s at the Arts Council of Princeton. To traditionalists, Bob Dylan “plugging in” at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival must have ...
Magician Paul Daniels is heading to North Devon - Torquay Herald Express Magician Paul Daniels, comedian Jethro and The Academy of St Martin in the Fields are among the performers heading to North Devon next spring. North Devon Theatres today announced a programme of shows at the Queen's Theatre in Barnstaple and the ...
Birth of Rock - Packet Online To traditionalists, Bob Dylan “plugging in” at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival must have seemed like a musical apocalypse. The story goes that Pete Seeger, Alan Lomax and Theodore Bikel were outraged (Seeger supposedly tried to sever the sound ...
