Fairport's Cropredy Convention appearances

Thursday 11 August 2016

• Fairport Acoustic Convention
• Gryphon
• CoCo and the Butterfields
• Hayseed Dixie
• Madness

Friday 12 August 2016

• Anthony John Clarke and Dave Pegg
• Brìghde Chaimbeul
• Sound of the Sirens
• Lifesigns
• Wille and the Bandits
• Headspace
• Steeleye Span
• The Bootleg Beatles

Saturday 13 August 2016

• Richard Digance
• Maia
• Gilmore & Roberts
• Pierce Brothers
• The Demon Barbers XL
• Babylon Circus
• Ralph McTell
• Fairport Convention & Friends

Thursday 13 August 2015

• Fairport Acoustic Convention
• Trad Arrr
• Dreadzone
• Katzenjammer
• Emmylou Harris and Rodney Crowell

Friday 14 August 2015

• Talisk
• ahab
• Judith Owen
• Skinny Lister
• Skerryvore
• Fish
• The Proclaimers
• Level 42

Saturday 15 August 2015

• Richard Digance
• Kevin Dempsey and Rosie Carson
• The Newgrass Cutters
• Band of Friends
• Toyah Willcox
• Paul Carrack
• Iain Matthews and Egbert Derix
• Fairport Convention & Friends

Thursday 7 August 2014

• Fairport Acoustic Convention
• Joe Broughton's Conservatoire Folk Ensemble
• Capercaillie
• Steve Hackett – Genesis Extended
• The Waterboys

Friday 8 August 2014

• The Mischa MacPherson Trio
• Deborah Rose
• Edwina Hayes
• Benjamin Folke Thomas
• Churchfitters
• The Travelling Band
• The Wonder Stuff
• Chas & Dave
• The Australian Pink Floyd Show

Saturday 9 August 2014

• Richard Digance
• Blackbeard's Tea Party
• Reg Meuross
• Treetop Flyers
• Cara Dillon
• Marillion
• Al Stewart
• Fairport Convention & Friends

Thursday 8 August 2013

• Fairport Acoustic Convention
• Fake Thackray
• Romeo's Daughter
• Edward II
• Alice Cooper

Friday 9 August 2013

• BBC YFA Winners – Greg Russell and Ciaran Algar
• Danny and the Champions of the World
• Kathryn Roberts and Sean Lakeman
• Moulettes
• Lúnasa
• Martin Barre's New Day
• Levellers
• 10cc

Saturday 10 August 2013

• Richard Digance
• Mediæval Bæbes
• Brooks Williams
• The Dunwells
• Peatbog Faeries
• Nik Kershaw
• Fairport Convention & Friends

Thursday 9 August 2012

• Fairport Acoustic Convention
• Kieran Goss
• Legend
• Bellowhead
• Squeeze

Friday 10 August 2012

• BBC YFA Winners – Ioscaid
• Ellen & The Escapades
• Dead Flamingoes (feat. Kami Thompson & James Walbourne)
• Tarras
• Larkin Poe
• Saw Doctors
• Richard Thompson
• Joan Armatrading

Saturday 11 August 2012

• Richard Digance
• Morris On
• Brother & Bones
• Calan
• Big Country as "Special Guests"
• Dennis Locorriere
• Fairport Convention & Friends

Thursday 11 August 2011

• Fairport Acoustic Convention
• Katriona Gilmore & Jamie Roberts
• Blair Dunlop
• Home Service
• Hayseed Dixie
• UB40

Friday 12 August 2011

• BBC YFA Winners - Moore, Moss, Rutter
• The Travelling Band
• Steve Tilston & The Durbervilles
• Charlie Dore
• The Dylan Project
• The Urban Folk Quartet
• The Coral
• Seasick Steve

Saturday 13 August 2011

• Richard Digance
• The Shee
• The Blockheads
• Lau
• Horslips as "Very Special Guests"
• Badly Drawn Boy
• Fairport Convention & Friends

Thursday August 12

• Keith Donnelly & Flossie Malavialle
• Leatherat
• Thea Gilmore
• Pauline Black of The Selecter
• Status Quo

Friday August 13

• The Tindalls
• Martin Taylor’s Spirit of Django
• Mabon
• 3 Daft Monkeys
• Little Johnny England
• The Dixie Bee-Liners
• Little Feat
• Bellowhead

Saturday August 14

• Richard Digance
• Breabach
• ahab
• Easy Star All Stars
• Rick Wakeman & The English Rock Ensemble
• Martyn Joseph
• Fairport Convention & Friends (including excerpts from the Rock Opera Excalibur)

Thursday August 13

• Harlequinn
• 4 Square
• Nicol & Cool
• Buzzcocks
• Steve Winwood

Friday August 14

• ColvinQuarmby
• Megan & Joe Henwood
• Scott Matthews
• Ade Edmondson & The Bad Shepherds
• John Jorgensen Band
• The Dodge Brothers
• Richard Thompson
• Seth Lakeman

Saturday August 15

• Richard Digance
• Churchfitters
• Feast of Fiddles
• Dreadzone
• Nik Kershaw
• Ralph McTell
• Fairport Convention & Friends (including special guest Yusuf)

Thursday August 7

• Whapweasel
• Anthony John Clarke
• The Gathering
• John Tams and Barry Coope
• Supergrass

Friday August 8

• The Family Mahone
• Peggy & PJ Wright
• 3 Daft Monkeys
• Siobhan Miller & Jeana Leslie (BBC Radio 2 Young Folk Award winners)
• Stackridge
• Paul Brady and his band
• Joe Brown and his band featuring special guest Dave Edmunds
• Levellers

Saturday August 9

• Richard Digance
• Lark Rise to Candleford featuring Ashley Hutchings
• Legend (Bob Marley tribute)
• The Muffinmen
• The Julie Fowlis Band
• Midge Ure
• Fairport Convention & Friends (including special guest Robert Plant)

40th Anniversary Year

Thursday August 9

• Anthony John Clarke
• Kerfuffle
• Wishbone Ash
• Seth Lakeman
• The Jools Holland's Rhythm and Blues Orchestra

Friday August 10

• Hummingbird
• Mad Agnes
• The Demon Barbers Roadshow
• Last Orders
• Viva Santana
• Show of Hands
• Fairport 1969 perform Liege and Lief
• The Richard Thompson Band

Saturday August 11

• Richard Digance
• Give Way
• The Bucket Boys
• Iain Matthews
• Strawbs
• Billy Mitchell and Bob Fox
• Fairport Convention & Friends

Thursday August 10

• wRants
• PJ Wright
• Feast of Fiddles
• Chris Newman & Maire Ni Chathasaigh
• Steeleye Span

Friday August 11

• Shameless Quo
• Bodega (Radio 2 Young Folk Award winner)
• Then Came The Wheel
• Ashley Hutchings' Rainbow Chasers
• The Deborah Bonham Band
• Flook
• John Martyn Band
• 10cc featuring Graham Gouldman and friends

Saturday August 12

• Richard Digance
• Sam Holmes
• Swarb's Lazarus
• King Pleasure and the Biscuit Boys
• Dervish
• Glenn Tilbrook
• Fairport Convention & Friends

Thursday August 11

• Tickled Pink
• Simon Mayor and Hilary James
• Jah Wobble
• Country Joe McDonald and his band

Friday August 12

• Big Eyed Fish
• Bob Fox performs solo
• Stuey Mutch with Henry Nicol
• Edwina Hayes
• Chris While and Julie Matthews
• The Muffin Men with Jimmy Carl Black
• The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain
• Richard Thompson
• The Dylan Project

Saturday August 13

• Richard Digance
• T & Latouche
• Uiscedwr
• The Hamsters
• Beth Nielsen Chapman
• Fairport Convention & Friends

Thursday 12 August

• Blue Meanies
• Mostly Autumn
• Jackie Leven and Michael Cosgrove
• Oysterband

Friday 13 August

• Earl Okin
• Andy Guttridge Band
• Family Mahone
• Anna Ryder/Steve Tilston Band with Maart Allcock and Clive Bunker
• Jerry Donahue Band
• Show of Hands
• Jethro Tull

Saturday 14 August

• Richard Digance
• Tiny Tin Lady
• The Mighty Firebirds
• Jez Lowe and The Bad Pennies
• Ashley Hutchings Morris On
• Nick Harper
• Fairport Convention & Friends

Thursday 7 August

• Colvin Quarmby
• Meet on the Ledge
• Trevor Burton Band
• Lindisfarne

Friday 8 August

• Mark Gillespie
• Keith Donnelly
• Equation
• David Hughes
• Bucket Boys
• Blue Tapestry
• Procol Harum

Saturday 9 August

• Richard Digance
• Al Hodge and The Mechanics
• The Hush
• Old Blind Dogs
• Albert Lee
• Dennis Locorriere
• Paul Mitchell singing Sinatra Songbook
• Fairport Convention & Friends

The 35th anniversary event.

Thursday 8 August

• Freeway Jam
• The Joyce Gang
• The Dubliners
• e2K

Friday 9 August

• Mundy-Turner
• Sarah Jory
• Magna Carta
• Oysterband
• Broderick
• Richard Thompson
• Fairport Convention "The Early Years"

Saturday 10 August

• Richard Digance
• Little Johnny England
• Eddi Reader
• Deborah Bonham
• The Alison Brown Quartet
• Fairport Convention & Friends

Thursday 9 August

• Tarras
• Steve Ashley & Friends
• The Dylan Project
• Lonnie Donegan

Friday 10 August

• Sandwitch
• Whirligig
• Keith Donnelly & Guests
• Chris While & Julie Matthews
• Sugarland Slim
• The Eliza Carthy Band
• Musafir
• De Dannan

Saturday 11 August

• Chuckletruck
• Vikki Clayton & Friends
• Five Furious Fish
• Francis Dunnery & The Grass Virgins
• Amos Garrett
• Brass Monkey
• Fairport Convention & Friends

Thursday 10 August

• Spank the Monkey
• Incredible String Band
• All About Eve

Friday 11 August

• Keith Donnelly
• Little Johnny England
• Iain Matthews & Andy Roberts
• The Backroom Boys
• The Albion Band
• Priory of Brion

Saturday 12 August

• The Unprofessionals
• Bob Fox
• Stackridge
• The Hamsters
• Show of Hands
• Fairport Convention & Friends

Friday 13 August

• Blazing Homesteads
• Chris While & Julie Maththews
• Jacqui McShee's Pentangle
• Kevin Dempsey & Dave Swarbrick
• The Dylan Project
• The Richard Thompson Band
• Barrage

Saturday 14 August

• Barrage
• Anna Ryder
• The Paul Mitchell Band
• Ralph McTell
• The Robbie McIntosh Band
• Maddy Prior and Friends
• Fairport Convention and Friends

Friday 14 August

• Anna Ryder
• Stringthing
• Solstice
• Vikki Clayton Band
• Fling
• Edward II
• Rory McLeod
• Roy Wood's Army

Saturday 15 August

• The Tabs
• Waz
• Cat Scratch Fever
• Rory McLeod
• Hank Wangford and the Lost Cowboys
• Loudon Wainwright III
• Fairport Convention & Friends

Friday 8 August

• Pressgang
• Kristina Olsen
• The Julian Dawson Band
• Osibisa
• Fairport Convention
• The Saw Doctors

Saturday 9 August

• Tempest
• Huw and Tony Williams
• Eliza Carthy with the Kings of Calicutt
• John Otway and Wild Willy Barrett
• Fairport Convention & Friends

Friday 9 August

• Superjam
• Clarion
• Chris Leslie and Beryl Marriott
• Edward II
• The Richard Thompson Band

Saturday 10 August

• Superjam
• The King Earl Boogie Band
• David Hughes and Gerry Conway
• The Atlantic Wave Band
• The Hellecasters
• Show of Hands
• Joe Brown and His Band
• Fairport Convention & Friends

Friday 11 August

• Eden Burning
• The Kathryn Tickell Band
• Procol Harum

Saturday 12 August

• Waulk Elektrik
• Huw and Tony Williams
• The Poozies
• The Nerve
• Wild Willy Barrett
• The Hamsters
• Richard Thompson with Danny Thompson
• Fairport Convention & Friends: The Roy Wood Big Band.[1]

Friday 12 August

• Tower Struck Down
• Roy Harper
• Lindisfarne

Saturday 13 August

• Too Cool For Shorts
• Shave The Monkey
• Man
• Horch
• Blodwyn Pig
• The Vin Garbutt Band
• Fairport Convention & Friends

Friday 13 August

• Clarion
• Richard Thompson & Danny Thompson
• The Leningrad Cowboys

Saturday 14 August

• The Buttermountain Boys
• Robin Williamson
• The Martin Barre Band
• Stockton's Wing
• Fallen Angels
• Fairport Convention & Guests

Friday 14 August

• The Wright Brothers
• Richard Thompson
• Fairport Convention & Friends

Saturday 15 August

• Skin The Peeler
• The Backroom Boys
• Four Men And A Dog
• Wolfstone
• Swarbrick And Carthy
• Fairport Convention & Friends

Friday 16 August

• Freeway Jam
• Eugene Wallace
• Storm
• The Richard Thompson Band

Saturday 17 August

• Blinder
• Jay Turner
• The Poor Mouth
• The Steve Gibbons Band
• Whippersnapper
• Alias Ron Kavana
• Dan Ar Braz
• Fairport Convention & Friends

Friday 17 August

• Avalon
• Ralph McTell
• The Bootleg Beatles

Saturday 18 August

• The Banana Band
• Kieran Halpin
• The Julian Dawson Band
• The Albion Band
• Blues n Trouble
• The Fureys & Davey Arthur
• Richard Thompson
• Fairport Convention & Friends

Friday 18 August

• The Breakers
• Zumzeaux
• Steeleye Span

Saturday 19 August

• The Elaine Morgan Band
• After Hours
• Climax Blues Band
• Sally Barker
• All About Eve
• Richard Thompson
• Fairport Convention & Friends

Friday 12 August

• Collaboration
• Mike Silver
• The Richard Thompson Band

Saturday 13 August

• The Kursaal Flyers
• Sally Barker
• Filarfolket
• The Steve Gibbons Band
• Dan Ar Bras' Electric Band
• Fairport Convention & Friends

Friday 7 August

• Le Rue
• Gordon Giltrap
• John Martyn & Danny Thompson

Saturday 8 August

• The Steve Ashley Band
• Mara!
• Chicken Shack
• Muzsikas
• Whippersnapper
• Richard Thompson
• Fairport Convention & Friends: June Tabor, Cathy LeSurf, Ian Anderson, Martin Barre[2]

Friday 8 August

• Kieran Halpin with Martin Allcock & Manus Lunny
• Mike Elliott
• The Richard Thompson Band

Saturday 9 August

• The Electric Bluebirds
• The Jon Strong Band
• The Sutherland Brothers
• Brass Monkey
• Dick Gaughan
• Fairport Convention & Friends: Ian Matthews, Robert Plant, Cathy LeSurf, Richard Thompson, Clive Gregson, Christine Collister, Mike Silver, Jerry Donahue, Bill Zorn[3]

Friday 9 August

• No Right Turn
• Neil Innes
• Fairport Convention (Full House lineup)

Saturday 10 August

• Jon Benns
• John James Band with Dick Heckstall-Smith
• Mosaic
• Balham Alligators
• Whippersnapper
• The Home Service
• Robin Williamson
• Fairport Convention & Friends: Billy Connolly, Richard Thompson, Cathy LeSurf, Ralph McTell, Trevor Lucas, Jerry Donahue[4][5]

Friday 10 August

• Ragged Heroes
• Bob Davenport
• Adrian Legg
• Steeleye Span

Saturday 11 August

• The Oyster Band with Cathy LeSurf
• Ian Campbell
• Garsters Dream Band
• Allan Taylor
• Pyewackett
• Ian Campbell
• Whippersnapper
• The Battlefield Band
• Richard Digance
• Fairport Convention & Friends: Cathy LeSurf, Wally Whyton, Matt Pegg, Ian & Lorna Campbell, Bob Davenport[6]

Friday 12 August

• Easvesdropper
• Jon Benns
• Richard Thompson Big Band

Saturday 13 August

• Blowzabella
• Jon Benns
• Eclipse
• Carrig
• Arizona Smoke Review
• Maxi & Mitch
• Albion Band
• Vin Garbutt
• Fairport Convention & Friends: Cathy LeSurf, Dave Mattacks, Ashley Hutchings, Richard Thompson, Paul Mitchell (harmonica), Linda Thompson, Alastair Anderson, Andy (of the Marksmen), Dave Whetstone[7]

The Fairport "Nine" line-up, performing at Cropredy 1982

Friday 13 August

• Knacker's Yard
• Dan Ar Bras
• Fairport Convention Performing "Babbacombe Lee"
• The Home Service

Saturday 14 August

• Captains Coco's Country Dance Band
• Bob Fox and Stu Luckley
• Dan Ar Bras
• Professor Bruce Lacey
• Maddy Prior Band
• Fairport Convention & Friends: Trevor Lucas, Jerry Donahue, Dave Mattacks, Linda Thompson[8]

Note: this festival was held at Broughton Castle.[9]

Friday 14 August

• The Sussex Trug Band
• Simon & Andrew Loake
• Ralph McTell, Richard Thompson, Dave Pegg & Dave Mattacks - The GPs

Saturday 15 August

• Captains Coco's Country Dance Band
• Steve Ashley & Chris Leslie
• Earl Okin
• The Bert Jansch Group
• Martin Carthy & John Kirkpatrick
• Fairport Convention & Friends: Richard Thompson, Judy Dyble[9][10]

Note: this was the first official Reunion Festival.[11]

Friday 30 August

• Captains Coco's Country Dance Band
• John Kirkpatrick and Sue Harris
• Richard & Linda Thompson
• Fairport Convention & Friends: Ralph McTell, Richard Thompson, Linda Thompson, Dave Mattacks, Robert Jordan[12]

Note: this was the official "Farewell" concert.[13]

Saturday 4 August

• Bag O'Nails
• The Kitchen Band
• The Rollright Stones
• Graham Smiths Greek Section
• The Tanglefoot Band
• Simon & Andrew Loake
• Steve Ashley & Chris Leslie
• Earl Okin
• Tony O'Leary
• Fairport Convention with special guest: Ralph McTell[14]

The first Fairport Convention concert held in Cropredy was in the back garden of a friend's house, on Saturday 17 July 1976. Although it was a private concert, there was an attendance of 750. It then became established as an annual event; from 1977, tickets were sold; in 1978, a larger site was used.[15]

• Humphries, Patrick (1982). Meet on the Ledge - a history of Fairport Convention. London: Eel Pie. ISBN 0-906008-46-8.

• Redwood, Fred; Woodward, Martin (1995). The Woodworm Era: The story of today's Fairport Convention. Thatcham: Jeneva. ISBN 0-9525860-0-2.