LONDON (Reuters) - English folk violinist Dave Swarbrick, a former leading member of the influential 1970s group Fairport Convention, has died at the age of 75, the band's website announced on Friday.

Dave Swarbrick, who played violin in the groundbreaking British folk-rock band Fairport Convention from 1969-79, died yesterday (June 3). He was 75. Born in 1941, Swarbrick had been a well-known ...

Fairport Convention's Dave Swarbrick has sadly passed away at the age of 75. What to Read Next His family announced that the virtuoso violin player had died after a long struggle with emphysema (via ...

NEW YORK — Dave Swarbrick, a fiddler who electrified the British folk tradition as a member of the band Fairport Convention, died Friday. He was 75. His death was announced on his website. The ...

English folk music is part and parcel a different animal than Celtic music, though the two share much in common. Both have long and storied reputations going back a millennium. Both use acoustic ...

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Dave Swarbrick, violinist for the British folk-rock band Fairport Convention, died today at age 75. He was a guest performer on their 1969 album Unhalfbricking and became a full-time member on Liege & ...

David Cyril Eric Swarbrick (5 April 1941 – 3 June 2016) was an English folk musician and singer-songwriter. His style has been copied or developed by almost every British and many world folk violin ...