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shewhomust) wrote2016-06-04 11:41 am
shewhomust) wrote2016-06-04 11:41 am
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Farewell to Music
I would have told you that the last time I saw Dave Swarbrick was with Martin Carthy at a Musicians' Benevolent Fund benefit at Cecil Sharp House, which LJ tells me was in 2012 - or maybe at his solo gig at the Waiting Room in Eaglescliff. But no, in fact it was just over a year ago, in concert at the Sage, once again with Carthy. But then, for over twenty years every time you saw Swarb could have been the last time.
There's a very good obituary in The Telegraph ("Well, they've had practice," says![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
durham_rambler).
I was looking for some suitably solemn or melancholy piece to embed here - O'Carolan's Farewell to Music, say - and was tempted by Fairport's Farewell, farewell, which is thematically apt, but not really a showcase for the man's talent. But I couldn't resist this (and not just because I've been listening to Dorten Yonder rehearsing their own 'Chickens!' set:
And, just fordurham_rambler, a bonus track from the archives:
There's a very good obituary in The Telegraph ("Well, they've had practice," says
durham_rambler).I was looking for some suitably solemn or melancholy piece to embed here - O'Carolan's Farewell to Music, say - and was tempted by Fairport's Farewell, farewell, which is thematically apt, but not really a showcase for the man's talent. But I couldn't resist this (and not just because I've been listening to Dorten Yonder rehearsing their own 'Chickens!' set:
And, just for
durham_rambler, a bonus track from the archives:
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We saw him and Carthy in October 2014. His voice was reduced to a hoarse whisper, but the tunes rang out as brightly as ever. He was a genius and a hero. We will miss him.
Many thanks for posting the links.
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