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Dave Swarbrick

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  • Genre: Folk

    Location UK

    Profile Views: 18720

    Last Login: 8/19/2009

    Member Since 1/8/2007

    Website http://www.folkicons.co.uk/swarb.htm

    Record Label Unknown Indie

    Type of Label Indie

  • Bio

    David Cyril Eric 'Dave' Swarbrick grew up in Birmingham where he learnt the rudiments of the violin from a local fiddler and attended the Birmingham College of Art (now absorbed into the Birmingham Institute of Art and Design) in the late 1950s. Playing guitar, he joined Beryl Marriot's Ceilidh Band in Birmingham. Beryl encouraged him to take up the fiddle again. Swarbrick joined the Ian Campbell Folk Group in 1960. In 1966 he teamed up with Martin Carthy and the pairing had a significant influence in the contemporary folk music scene. In 1969 he joined folk-rock group Fairport Convention. In 1973 he contributed mandolin to Al Stewart's "Past, Present, & Future" album. In 1984 Swarbrick formed Whippersnapper, a group renowned for its acoustic prowess. In 1989 he decided to leave to concentrate on solo work and revive his partnership with Martin Carthy. In 1993 Swarbrick moved to Australia and met and began working with Alistair Hulett. Returning to England in 1996, he started working with Kevin Dempsey, who is recently joined Uiscedwr. There was considerable embarrassment for the Daily Telegraph newspaper in 1999 when it published a premature obituary for Swarbrick after he was admitted to hospital with a chest infection. After many years of steadily worsening health due to emphysema, he was fortunate enough, in October 2004, to receive a double lung transplant and has now been released from hospital and it is to be hoped he is on the road to improved health and a better quality of life after being confined to a wheelchair for some years. In 2004 he was given a Lifetime Achievement Award at the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards. In 2006 Swarb started touring again with ex-Fairporter Maartin Allcock and Kevin Dempsey as Swarb's Lazarus; they appeared at the Cropredy Festival. In 2007 Martin Carthy and Dave Swarbrick won the 'Best Duo' Award at the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards
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    2 years ago
  • Patricia S. Goodman


    Hello,thanks add!

    2 years ago
  • David Franks: Walkabout…

    After you've finished here, you may like to hear this poem sung on MySpace...

    Poem cum song 5 of 230, WalkaboutsVerse (see my Blog for details):
    STATE TO STATE

    (TUNE:

    C F G F
    C F G F
    C F G F
    C F G F
    F G F C
    F G F C
    F G F C
    C F F F)

    From Sydney Town,
        In uni. break,
    I drove out west
        To earnings make
    Onion picking,
        On the fields
    Of Echuca,
        That year’s yields.

    After day’s work,
        From Y.H.A.,
    A group of us
        Would not delay
    To walk on down
        To the dirt rim
    Of the Murray,
        For a cool swim.

    On one such day,
        I do declare,
    Some three of us
        Had a big dare
    To swim across,
        From state to state,
    The wide Murray -
        I took the bait.

    Yes, foolishly,
        I took the bait -
    A choice that I
        Would come to hate,
    For I almost
        Did drown that date,
    Making the swim
        From state to state.

    (C) David Franks 2003

    2 years ago
  • Riding Blinds

    ....Hi,
    the legend lives! Riding
    Blinds
    play in Music Club Live in Hamburg,
    Fruchtallee 36 · 20259 Hamburg ·
    www.music-club-live.de
    .
    Come & join on April, 30.,
    at 21.00 h. Support: Kauz



    3 years ago
  • 小川倫生 / Michio Ogawa

    Hello.

    ARIGATOU!!
    Thank you for your friendship.

    Michio Ogawa

    3 years ago
  • Jan Galach

    Hi,
    Greetings from Poland and see You soon :)

    3 years ago
  • David Franks: Walkabout…

    After you've finished here, you may like to hear this poem, & some songs, on myspace...
    Poem 187 of 230, WalkaboutsVerse
    (see my blog for details):  
    A SOUTH SHIELDS WALKABOUT - AUTUMN 2001 

    Out of the museum-and-gallery 
    (Wiser on Cookson and the local way), 
    Down Ocean Road with, to the right of me, 
    Its eateries and, left, neat places to stay; 
    Before, on either side, Marine Parks - 
    The southern-one a most beautiful place, 
    Teeming with moorhens, swans, grebes and mallards 
    In a small lake at a scenic-hill’s base. 

    Then (holding chips from the parade’s cafe 
    And, thus, a flock of gulls squawking above) 
    Onto the South Pier I made my way: 
    Seeing seaweed over rocks - like a glove - 
    And high-and-dry sands held from transgression 
    By growth of grass and the weaving of wood, 
    Plus, in the dim light of a sleepy sun, 
    Fishing boats returning to Tynemouth’s hood. 

    (C) David Franks 2003

    3 years ago
  • The Nearlys

    one of my music heroes - cheers x

    3 years ago
  • Lucy Ward

    Happy New Year. I hope 2010 is tender and kind to you.


    "Tender" (Albarn)

    Lucy Ward | MySpace Music Videos
    jw

     

    It may not be folk but it's a beautiful song.

    3 years ago
  • David Franks: Walkabout…

    After you've finished here, you may like to hear this folk-carol on myspace...
    Poem 230 of 230, WalkaboutsVerse
    (see my blog for details): 
    CHRISTMAS SUNG SIMPLY

    As gospellers have said,
    Beneath signalling skies,
    On land dusty to tread,
    A trough in a stable
    Was the strawy first-bed
    Of a divine baby -
    The forgiving Godhead.

    A season for new hope -
    There then and here now;
    The yuletide of goodwill -
    There then and here now.

    In respect of this chance,
    Beneath bright or dark skies,
    Faith's the star that we glance
    Attending Christ's churches
    And trying to enhance,
    With singing and ritual,
    Our God-loving stance.

    A...

    (C) David Franks 2003

    3 years ago
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