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Peggy Seeger - 100% match to Ewan MacColl

Margaret Seeger, 17 June 1935, New York City, New York, USA. From an early age Seeger was accomplished on guitar, banjo, Appalachian dulcimer, autoharp and concertina. Her parents, Ruth Crawford and Charles Seeger were both professional musicians and teachers. They insisted that their daughter receive a formal musical education from the age of seven years. At the same time t Read more

A.L. Lloyd - 88% match to Ewan MacColl

Albert Lancaster Lloyd, 29 February 1908, London, England, d. 29 September 1982, Greenwich, London, England. Bert Lloyd was one of the prime movers of the 50s folk song revival in Britain. After spending time in Australia as a teenager, where his interest in folk song developed, he returned to England and pursued his passion. He had collected some 500 songs by 1935 and was d Read more

The Watersons - 57% match to Ewan MacColl

This British band is regarded as one of the most important and influential of the UK folk revival outfits, and have been cited by numerous artists, such as Anne Briggs, as being responsible for the development of unaccompanied harmony singing. They were originally called the Mariners, then the Folksons, before using their family name. The essential group, with occasional later Read more

Martin Carthy - 56% match to Ewan MacColl

21 May 1941, Hatfield, Hertfordshire, England. Carthy began his career as an actor but in 1959 became a skiffle guitarist and singer with the Thameside Four. He made his first solo recording on the 1963 Decca Records collection Hootenanny In London, singing ‘Your Baby ’As Gone Down The Plug Hole’, later revived by Cream. By now, Carthy was recognized as a virt Read more

Frankie Armstrong - 54% match to Ewan MacColl

13 January 1941, Workington, Cumbria, England. Armstrong possesses one of the strongest interpretative voices on the folk circuit. She began singing during the UK folk revival of the early 60s, and later joined the Ceilidh Singers, a skiffle group. In 1965, Armstrong sang, at the Edinburgh Festival ‘Poets In Public’, with John Betjeman, Stevie Smith and Ted Hughes. Read more

Dick Gaughan - 51% match to Ewan MacColl

Richard Peter Gaughan, 17 May 1948, Rutherglen, South Lanarkshire, Scotland. A veteran of Scotland’s thriving folk circuit, Gaughan rose to national prominence in the 70s as a member of the Boys Of The Lough. From there, he became a founder member of Five Hand Reel, an electric folk group that enjoyed considerable critical acclaim. Gaughan left them in 1978 following th Read more

Dave Swarbrick - 48% match to Ewan MacColl

David Cyril Eric Swarbrick, 5 April 1941, New Malden, Surrey, England. Violinist and vocalist Swarbrick has played with many well-known groups and performers both in the folk genre and other areas of music. He is usually best remembered for his time with Fairport Convention, whom he first joined in 1969. In his earlier days, Swarbrick played guitar in a ceilidh band before t Read more

Brass Monkey - 36% match to Ewan MacColl

This folk band was formed in 1981 by John Kirkpatrick (8 August 1947, Chiswick, London, England; anglo-concertina, melodeon, accordion, vocals), Roger Williams (b. 30 July 1954, Cottingham, Yorkshire, England; trombone), Howard Evans (b. 29 February 1944, Chard, Somerset, England; trumpet, flügelhorn), Martin Brinsford (b. 17 August 1944, Gloucester, England; saxophone, Read more

Shirley Collins - 36% match to Ewan MacColl

Shirley Elizabeth Collins, 5 July 1935, Hastings, East Sussex, England. Collins was established as a leading English folk singer following her discovery by a BBC researcher. In 1959, she accompanied archivist Alan Lomax on a tour of southern American states before making her recording debut the same year with Sweet England, issued on Topic Records. In 1964 she completed Folk Read more

Silly Sisters - 36% match to Ewan MacColl

During the lull which followed the recording of Steeleye Span’s All Around My Hat, vocalist Maddy Prior (14 August 1947, Blackpool, Lancashire, England) performed an abrupt volte-face and plunged back into pure folk song recording with a traditional album recorded with June Tabor (b. 31 December 1947, Warwick, England), a librarian in Swindon, England. Despite its ‘ Read more

Waterson:Carthy - 36% match to Ewan MacColl

This family project was formed in the early 90s by two of England’s greatest traditional folk artists, guitarist Martin Carthy (21 May 1941, Hatfield, Hertfordshire, England) and his vocalist wife Norma Waterson (b. Norma Christine Waterson, 15 August 1939, Kingston Upon Hull, East Riding, Yorkshire, England). Joining Carthy and Waterson was their fiddle-playing daughte Read more

Anne Briggs - 35% match to Ewan MacColl

29 September 1944, Toton, Nottinghamshire, England. Briggs started singing publicly in 1962 as part of the Centre 42 organization, a package show organized by the Trades Union Congress to bring culture to the provinces. The 17-year-old singer was signed up by musical director Ewan MacColl, leaving her home to tour with the movement. She squatted in London with a young Bert J Read more

Nic Jones - 35% match to Ewan MacColl

Nicholas Paul Jones, 9 January 1947, Orpington, Kent, England. The earlier work of this highly respected guitarist and fiddle player showed great promise, but a tragic accident interrupted his career. Initially inspired by Hank Marvin, Jones gradually drifted into folk music thanks to the influence of leading guitarists Bert Jansch and Davey Graham. In 1967 Jones played guit Read more

The Albion Band - 34% match to Ewan MacColl

June Tabor - 33% match to Ewan MacColl

31 December 1947, Warwick, England. Possessing one of folk music’s greatest voices, Tabor is a fine interpreter of both contemporary and traditional songs. She first came to notice in the early 70s, working on albums by Rosie Hardman and Peter Bellamy while still employed as a librarian. Her acclaimed 1976 debut for Topic Records, Airs And Graces, made an immediate impa Read more