Folk-rockers Fairport Covention reveal Harrogate Theatre date
Legendary folk-rockers Fairport Convention have announced dates for their new spring tour including a date in Harrogate.
After a packed year, including two tours and a sold-out Cropredy Convention, the group will reunite with drummer, Dave Mattacks for 24 dates throughout the UK. They play Harrogate Theatre on Tuesday April 7.
Formed in 1967, the band pioneered the blending of traditional and electric instruments, in turn becoming synonymous with the 'electric-folk' sound.
Their annual music festival attracts up to 15,000 people to the fields of Oxfordshire each August. With a career now spanning 59 years, the chaps continue carrying on the Fairport torch, with next year’s tour marking 30 years of the band’s current line-up – featuring Simon Nicol, Dave Pegg, Ric Sanders and Chris Leslie, augmented by Dave Mattacks on the drummer’s stool.
With their most well-known track Who Knows Where The Time Goes reaching over 32 million Spotify streams this year, Fairport are true statesmen of British music.
The band have also won a BBC Lifetime Achievement Award and Radio 2 listeners voted their ground-breaking album Liege and Lief the Most Influential Folk Album of All Time in 2006.
The line up features Simon Nicol on guitar and vocals, Dave Pegg on bass guitar, Ric Sanders on violin, Chris Leslie on fiddle, mandolin and vocals, while Dave Mattacks returns on percussion duties.
Mattacks featured as Fairport Convention's longstanding drummer throughout most of the 1970s, 80s and 90s. His skills have been in demand ever since, seeing him contribute to numerous studio recordings by the likes of Paul McCartney, Brian Eno, Elton John and Nick Drake.
Support for the spring Tour comes from the award-winning, folk powerhouse, Jenn Butterworth. Widely recognised as one of the UK’s leading exponents of traditional folk guitar, Jenn has stormed the thriving Scottish-folk scene – winning Album of the Year with acclaimed folk supergroup, Songs of Separation at BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards in 2017 and Musician of the Year at the Scottish Trad Music Awards in 2019.
Tickets: 01423 502116 and https://www.harrogatetheatre.co.uk/whats-on/