Fairport convene for 50th birthday

Fairport Convention celebrate their 50th anniversary with an album and a UK winter tour taking in Worthing.
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The folk-rock band will be marking 50 years of performances with an extensive series of dates and the release of 50:50@50 which features new original songs and live recordings of various fan favourites.

The winter tour will see the band performing at Worthing’s Assembly Hall on Thursday, February 2, offering a selection of tracks from the new record, alongside established hits from their ever-growing repertoire.

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Founding member Simon Nicol hasn’t lost the buzz of performing even after a half-century of tours.

“Fairport Convention have been extraordinarily fortunate to create a work ethic based on live performance” says Simon.

“As someone whose hobby ultimately became a career, I’m happy every time the van pulls up outside my house to take me off on my travels, where the stage awaits, and I get a chance to make everyone happy that they made the choice to buy a ticket.”

Fairport Convention’s current line-up is the longest running in the band’s history: Simon Nicol on guitar and vocals, Dave Pegg on bass guitar, Chris Leslie on fiddle, mandolin and vocals, Ric Sanders on violin and Gerry Conway on drums and percussion.

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Opening the concerts on this celebratory tour will be BBC TV’s The Voice 2014 runner-up Sally Barker, a singer-songwriters and former member of all-girl folk group The Poozies.

Box office: 01903 206206 or online at www.worthingtheatres.co.uk.

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