Dave Swarbrick, who played violin in the groundbreaking British folk-rock band Fairport Convention from 1969-79, died yesterday (June 3). He was 75. Born in 1941, Swarbrick had been a well-known ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. “It was the spirit of the times,” says singer-guitarist Simon Nicol. “People who weren’t there can’t imagine how open-minded and ...

Judy Dyble, vocalist for folk-rock acts Fairport Convention and Trader Horne, has died at age 71. The singer's management and publicist confirmed the news via Facebook. Dyble announced in November ...

Stuffing their set with a surprising amount of new material for a vintage act, Fairport are still clearly having fun and brought the house down Released in 1969, Fairport Convention’s fourth album, ...

Touring to celebrate their 35th anniversary as a band (and in support of their new album, "XXXV," on Compass Records) Fairport Convention appeared at the Knitting Factory in Hollywood -- and was a bit ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. There aren't too many musicians out there who continue to make music for over half a century, but the iconic folk rock group ...

Fairport Convention’s new album, Myths & Heroes, is finally out, and it’s a welcome return to the contemporary originals that the band does best. Although some Fairport fans from its earliest days ...

When Fairport Convention tentatively formed in the house of guitarist and vocalist Simon Nicol in 1967, it may have seemed inconceivable to them that in 2005 the band would still be going strong after ...

Fairport Convention are like the Stanley Matthews of folk music - age does nothing to erode essential quality. The folksters, whose combined age is just under 300, have released their first studio ...

While Fairport Live Convention didn't see the introduction of any truly new material—other than "Fiddlestix," the version on the reissued Nine having been previously recorded and released in Australia ...

Her crystalline soprano drew on folk tradition, but she also embraced psychedelia and progressive rock. By Jon Pareles Judy Dyble, a singer and songwriter who was in the first recorded lineup of the ...