Watch Fairport Convention: Folk Heroes Online

watch Fairport Convention: Folk Heroes
Fairport Convention: Folk Heroes

Fairport Convention: Folk Heroes Online

  • Genres: Documentary, Music
  • Release Date: 25/11/2017
  • Duration : 1 hour 13 minutes
  • Director: Charlie Thomas, Mark Rivers
  • Production: Special Treats Productions
  • Country: United Kingdom

Overview:

In the late 1960s, a group of North London musicians shook traditional English folk music to its roots by fusing it with rock - simultaneously outraging the purists and delighting a new and devoted audience. Through new interviews with the band including Richard Thompson, the film examines how the group survived tragedy when their drummer was killed in a car crash early in their career, followed by the tragic death of lead vocalist Sandy Denny; and how they overcame numerous line-up changes to continually reinvent themselves by discovering and recruiting some of the finest virtuosos in the country.

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