The spirit of Sandy Denny pervades the music of Fairport Convention. The folk singer who had been the catalyst in the creation of what became known as folk-rock suffered an untimely death at the age ...

Some festivalgoers were in a rush to get the best spot in front of the stage. The calm before the storm... Fairport's Cropredy Convention opened its gates at 14:00 BST on Thursday. Thousands of ...

A three-day folk, roots and rock festival has seen its first guests arrive for another sell-out year in Oxfordshire. The Fairport Cropredy Convention has once again transformed the sleepy village on ...

More than 20 musicians have passed through the ranks of Fairport Convention--most notably Richard Thompson and Sandy Denny--and the quintet's two newest members are drummer Gerry Conway, who replaced ...

After a packed year - including two acclaimed tours and another highly successful Cropredy Convention - we’re very happy to be announcing Fairport Convention’s Winter 2025 UK Tour - stopping off at ...

Seminal British folk rockers Fairport Convention are heading out on their Autumn 2025 UK Tour next month, and will be stopping off to grace the stage of the UK's oldest surviving Victorian Music Hall ...

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.

Some festivalgoers were in a rush to get the best spot in front of the stage. Thousands of festivalgoers are set to descend on a rural village for one of the UK's largest folk rock festivals. Fairport ...

Thousands of festivalgoers are set to descend on a rural village for one of the UK's largest folk rock festivals. Fairport's Cropredy Convention opened its gates at 14:00 BST on Thursday. The festival ...