The full line-up has now been revealed for the 2026 Cropredy festival. This year Robert Plant of Led Zeppelin was among the stars ...

Cropredy 1997 was a valiant attempt to bring together all the significant Fairport line-ups. At best, this is a memento of the occasion, and should carry a "For Diehards Only" warning. With Ian ...

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 ...

There’s really no doubt that Fairport Convention is as English as tea, fish and chips and bowler hats. As the band celebrates its 45th anniversary culminating with its annual Cropredy Festival on ...

The musician - who served as Fairport’s drummer from 1998 until 2022 - passed away following a battle with motor neurone disease on March 29. Paying tribute to Conway on their official website, the ...

They were a bunch of uptight Londoners who wanted to be The Byrds. But after a tragic road crash, Fairport Convention holed up in the countryside, tapped into mystical traditions and reinvented ...

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 ...

Singer-songwriter Richard Thompson says he resisted the idea of a memoir for years, but once he decided to write one he found his objections soon drifted away. “I think I was reluctant until I got ...

Fairport Convention singer Judy Dyble has died aged 71. The folk artist, who also had a solo career, had been suffering from a long-term illness. Judy’s agent confirmed the news in a statement, which ...