Folk rock legends Fairport Convention have announced Spring 2026 tour dates for England and Wales. With two acclaimed tours last year, as well as hosting and selling out their famed Cropredy festival ...

The British singer/guitarist spoke to Fresh Air in 1994 and '22 about about his formative years and about pioneering a new musical genre that blended rock with traditional music of the British isles.

These days, the legendary folk-rock band Fairport Convention isn’t as widely known as it once was, and yet Richard Thompson, the band’s most storied guitarist, is often cited as an influence by a wide ...

BBC Lifetime Achievement Award winners Fairport Convention are back! With more than half a century's back catalogue to choose from, every show is a tour de force of British folk rock. The band ...

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Fairport Convention, which annually hosts the eponymous legendary music festival in Oxfordshire, will embark on a UK tour ahead of the band's diamond anniversary. Formidable British folk rockers ...

Their work in the late 1960s was an unholy marriage of two very different genres that left purists aghast but would leave its mark on the soundscape of the 1970s ‘The British Jefferson Airplane’: ...

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