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Dave Swarbrick

The Blinkin' Buzzards

0	LONDON: The Kalamazoo Klub @ The King's Head
P	Friday 13th July, 2012
N	8:30pm

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Dave has been in all the major Folk Super Groups and played with luminaries of the Folk world; the Ian Campbell Folk Group in the early 60s, Martin Carthy in tha ltae 1960s - this remarkable pairing played an important part in the tremendous shake up given to British folk music in the middle to late 60s. In 1969 he joined Fairport Convention and his contribution to folk and folk/rock music is legendary and well documented.

In 1984 Dave left Fairport and, along with Kevin Dempsey, Chris Leslie and Martin Jenkins, formed Whippersnapper, a group renowned for its drive and acoustic prowess. In 1989 Dave decided to leave to concentrate on solo work and revive his partnership with Martin Carthy. In the early 90s Dave and Martin were members of the folk "supergroup" Band of Hope along with such luminaries as Roy Bailey, Steafan Hannigan, John Kirkpatrick and Chris Parkinson. The band toured twice and produced one CD, "Rhythm and Reds".

In 2004 Swarb received a Lifetime Achievement Award in the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards and in 2006 Fairport Convention received an award for "Liege And Lief". In 2007 Swarb received another award at the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards, this time for Best Duo (with Martin Carthy) as well as being nominated in the best instrumentalist category. In 2008 he won the Hancock Award for Musician of the Year.

In 2010 Swarb released ‘raison d’être’, his first solo album for nearly 20 years. Reviewed in over 20 publications, it received a four star award in Mojo and was described as "truly stunning" by Living Tradition. FROOTS said, " His fiddle flits and swoops like a swallow in full flight" whilst R2(Rock'n'Reel) praised his "masterclasses in bowing". EFDSS Magazine described it as "the work of a fine fiddler who simply refuses to lie down and rest on his not inconsiderable laurels."