Ex-Fairporter Dan Ar Braz had a TV Documentary shown in Brittany last night. Dan has done so much for Breton music as this lovely tribute shows. Brush up on your French and look out for “yours truly” making a brief appearance at one point...
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Our dear friend Ralph McTell - along with Sir Billy Connolly, Sir Anthony Hopkins and Liam Neeson O.B.E. - has come up with this beautiful remembrance. Recorded with the Southbank Sinfonia, all proceeds of the recording will be donated to the R...
My dear friend Ralph sent me this the other day with a request for me to put some mando on. So here it is and he said that he had no objections to sharing it. so here with thanks to John Watterson for putting London Ralph and Peggy Morbihan tog...
Late last year my granddaughter Ava had a day in the studio from me as a Christmas prezzie. She got two tracks down with her dad Mat and me helping out. My first session on cello! Here's a video she made up of her song - World We Live In. I am ...
Do check out this video from one of our best poets, says Peggy. Number eight in a series, this one is called Nether Wallop and is a beauty. Keith is a full-time member of The Spiritualists and a part-time member of The Scaffold.
Check out our favourite Banbury Undertaker, Edd Frost and Daughters' Facebook page here for their moving tribute to Jonah's Oak. Each year Edd and his team remove the plaques, give them a good polish and reinstate them for the festival. This year is ...
Arthur Brown's Crazy World of Lockdown has released a version of House of the Rising Sun to help raise money for the Help Musicians charity. Along with Peggy, the recording features former Big Country bass player Tony Butler, Josh Phillips, John Altm...
Peggy writes: "My dear friend James Wood co -wrote Cider Rain which Fairport put on our current album, Shuffle and Go. Here's a video of James' band Teegarden, performing their own version. Teegarden are James Wood, Philippe Richalley, Luc Boiss...
There's a silent field this August Where the gentle Cherwell flows, Where this year untramped by festive feet The grassy meadow grows But birds sang every morning The Festival Bell still pealed The water-lilies opened wh...
The good people at the Cropredy Blog have put together a short documentary film about the festival. Here's what they say: "The Cropredy Festival (or Fairport's Cropredy Convention) is a music festival that takes place every August in a small Oxfordsh...