The Cropredy Set
Thirteen years after the brace of sell-out ‘farewell’ concerts
at London’s legendary Marquee club, it was finally time to release
a live album. And, given the subsequent demolition of the old Marquee,
what better location for such a recording than a festival stage? The venue
was Cropredy, Fairport Convention’s annual celebration of the finest
in folk, rock and the hybrid beasts in between. The sun shone on a huge
crowd as Solstice – now augmented by Jenny Newman on violin, Robin
Phillips on bass and Steve McDaniel on keyboards – took the stage
for a set that began with a sequence of old favourites before concentrating
on newer material. Most of these were from the then-recent Circles album,
but there was also space for a band version of Awakening from Clive Bunker’s
solo album, along with the new instrumental, Ducks on the Pond.
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