It’s a Fairport Convention Cropredy Festival Special!!With a playlist curated by:
Friday 13th August 2021…7-9pm 1st broadcast. Repeats Sunday Noon till 2pm, Available on Listen Again (7 days) and on Mixcloud.. (for a while longer!!)
On tonight’s show, studio guest Richard Weller will tell us all about the Pebworth Fringe Festival(Saturday 1st September)..Lucy Cordrey will call in and enthuse about the Phoenix Festival- a youth and community led totally FREE TO ENTER event(24th & 25th August,Abbey Grounds, Cirencester.)
Resident Poet Paul Curran sings (!!) and discusses Leonard Cohen..
Don’t forget the Cotswolds Distillery Event…..
(Dan Szor-Cotswolds Distillery)
..and we take a look back at Fairport Convention’s Cropredy Festival.
..and expect a new segment “Community to Community”..do listen in..
It may very well affect your business health and wealth!!!
And there’ll be a rundown of other local events…….
And I daresay you’d like to know about our studio guests for next week!!
Singer/songwriter from these parts Ruben Seabright, and Dylan..and Hope..and Otis…..
So, listen in..www.nccr.co.uk’
On this week’s show….
Our resident poet Paul Curran, gives an extended view of Allen Ginsberg (3 June 1926 – 5 April 1997) and John Cooper Clarke (born 25 January 1949) ..an English performance poet who first became famous during the punk rock era of the late 1970s when he became known as a “punk poet”..
So expect music from Deep Purple, John Cooper Clarke, Neil Diamond, Hank Marvin, Shalamar…
And with a host of Cotswold Music festivals ahead (Cropredy, Cotswold Distillery etc) we hope to get a foretast of the music on offer…King Pleasure and the Biscuit Boys, Joe brown, Fairport Convention, The Julie July Band etc..
And whatever else arises…!!
So.. be there NCCR (www.nccr.co.uk Friday Live.. (LIVE 7-9 pm)
Festival time is now well and truly upon us!!
Intrepid reporters from NCCR were at Cornbury, and caught up with a few of the acts..
And there is more to come!!
The first ever Over the Hill festival at Cogges Manor Farm Witney, presented by Glovebox Live featuring Americana music..( Bank Holiday Monday 26th August )
And before that – Fairport Convention’s Cropredy Festival ( Thursday 8th to Saturday 10th August 2019 ).. with a newly announced special guest…
In the studio..Jon Buxton will be telling us all about the music of Heronimus Fin.. “Record Collector Magazines readers vote the band consistently in their top 500 collectable artists 6 years running (even toppling Syd Barrett, The Stereophonics, Cream, The Eagles, The White Stripes, Foo Fighters, Robert Plant, Joe Satriani, Can, Roger Waters) and John Vignola write in Italy’s alternative rock magazine Rockerilla “the capacity of the band to mix the tone and alternate the acoustics in a contagious electric riff, produces compositions filled with yearning and melancholy with total originality ….. our rational attempt stops here at the evident beauty of the sound” …
The playlist may well include some, or all…of the following…
With a few tracks from Heronimus Fin…of course..
… and perhaps a track or two from others!! Shalamar, Hank Marvin, Dustin Lynch…
So, be sure to tune in!! www.nccr.co.uk
PSL & Ric Sanders of Fairport Convention.
Fairport Convention were at the Bacon Theatre ,Cheltenham Friday 12th October 2018…
Ric Sanders had spoken with us a few days prior to the gig…
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