A proud parent kindly sent me the link to this YouTube clip of the Kerfuffle's Cropredy set. Unfortunately, I was not able to spend long enough at the festival to catch more than a handful of the acts and this... Read more →
Peter Bellamy, courtesy Folk Images From today, Salut! Live has a new feature. Down near the foot of the right hand column you will find a sub-heading Salut! Lives, which will build into an archive of obituaries I have written... Read more →
Salut! Live is open to contributors. Philip Howells* explores the tricky territory many of us encounter when seeking to define folk music (c)Keith Tysall We may aspire to the “classless society” and regard the idea of “class” as non-PC but... Read more →
Chris While in stunning form at cropredy Picture: beanmunster During exchanges with Kate Rusby about an article I was writing for her website, I mentioned that I was heading for Cropredy and the annual Fairport Convention reunion. "Have a ball,"... Read more →
Demon Barber Roadshow: among Martin's highlights Picture: beanmunster No sooner had I invited readers' thoughts on Fairport Convention and Cropredy than a detailed, thought-provoking missive arrived from Martin Sellers, who won a pair of tickets for the festival in the... Read more →
Eddie Yates, aka Vernon Scripps and even Geoffrey Hughes, and Mike Harding - joint comperes for the occasion - were dead right. This was a night when history was being made, and we were all part of it just by... Read more →
