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Time no barrier as Cropredy Fest rocks on and on
Mon Aug 17, 2009 11:04am EDT
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CROPREDY, England (Reuters) - Simon Nicol, the last original member of folk rock band Fairport Convention, admits he's not into numbers, which may be why no one is quite sure what milestone just passed in this rural English village.
Billed as Britain's friendliest music festival, Fairport's Cropredy Convention ended its annual show on Saturday night in typical style, with a rollicking set by Fairport and friends, this year including the former Cat Stevens, now known as Yusuf.
But was it the 29th such event or the 30th, or even a bit more than that?
The problem -- if it is one -- is that Fairport have been performing at Cropredy (pronounced crop-ur-dee) in one form or another for so long that it is all suitably blurred into the folk rock mists of time.
Formed in the 1960s, the band started playing at the southern English village fete in the 1970s because some members lived there. In 1977, they moved to farmland for the concerts. Then in 1979 they had a farewell concert, but liked it so much they had a reunion in 1980 and have done it every year since.
So somewhere in there began the tradition.
"It has just grown despite ourselves," Nicol told Reuters backstage, accompanied by his splendidly patient dog Leonard. "I'm not big on numbers, myself."
What is clear is that the village fete jam has now turned into a cult event bringing 20,000 people from across Britain and beyond to hear everything from traditional folk to hard rock.
Acts at this year's three-day fest ranged from the frantic fiddle rock of Seth Lakeman to the angst-ridden folk of Ralph McTell by way of the throbbing dub, techno, reggae that is Dreadzone.
Along the way was a crowd-pleasing set from punk folkers the Bad Shepherds -- think the Clash as played by the Chieftains -- and what was surely the festival pinnacle, a truly breathtaking jazz-rock set by Steve Winwood, once of Traffic and Blind Faith.
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Cropredy is not Glastonbury. Indeed many of the crowd would have been more likely to have gone to Woodstock -- the original one, in 1968.
But it is nothing if not inclusive. Youth was out in force among the oldies, attracted by both the mix of music and, in some cases, by the fact that they had been brought there by their parents as babies.
Dedications from the stage included a fifth birthday, a 20th and 60th, and a 40th wedding anniversary.
Tee-shirts also told the tale, from a tribute to 1970s progressive rockers Gong, to an announcement that the bearer had seen Leonard Cohen, to the more down to earth "Sex, drugs and sausage rolls." Continued...
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