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Fairport Convention: Chronicles

Terry Staunton, Record Collector, May 2005

FAIRPORT'S ANNUAL reunion festival at Cropredy in Oxfordshire celebrated its 25th anniversary last year, long since established as one of the primo dates on the world folk calendar. Not bad for a bunch of school kids who started off jamming in a parent's semi in a leafy North London suburb back in the 60s.

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