For four decades the Cropedy Festival near Banbury has been entertaining fans of folk music, with Fairport Convention’s performance bringing the event to a noisy finish.
It was off this year due to Covid-19 but should be back for 2021.
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The festival is already been planned and August 12-14 are the proposed dates, with Fairport Convention, former Genesis musician Steve Hackett and guitar legend Richard Thompson already listed.
Gogol Bordello
Folk fans will be hoping that the coronavirus restrictions are no longer in place and that major music festivals like Cropredy will be back on the calendar so they can join in a rousing chorus of Fairport's anthem Meet On The Ledge at the end of the festival's last night.
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Last year gypsy punk band Gogol Bordello kicked off the festival with an energetic performance before The Waterboys took to the stage.
Mike Scott of The Waterboys
Gogol Bordello, whose music fuses traditional Roma and Eastern European styles with western punk and rock, performed an incendiary Thursday night set, with lead singer Eugene Hutz stripped to the waste and throwing red wine around the stage.
The festival known to fans and locals as simply ‘Cropredy’ or ‘Fairport’, sprang into life last year with an acoustic set by hosts Fairport Convention, who set up the event 40 years ago.
Fairport Convention
Cropedy is one of many Oxfordshire festivals music fans have missed out on this year due to government restrictions designed to limit the spread of coronavirus
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Others include the Big Feastival, Wilderness and Cornbury.
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