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Thread #168591   Message #4124782
Posted By: GUEST,Joe Bonington
31-Oct-21 - 03:41 PM
Thread Name: Info about Wendy Bonington (died 2014)
Subject: RE: Info about Wendy Bonington
Mum, Never really recovered from Conrads death, she played and sang but was never as prolific as prior to that.
She did play at The Sun Inn though, along side Ange and Nev, I can remember being there for sessions as a small child.
She then also teamed up with Dave Goulder and some other musicians and started to get back into it. I can't remember what the name of the band or if they were actually a named band or just a collective who played together, but they were playing regularly in the late 70's very early 80s. Dave then moved up to the Highlands with his family, SHe played once or twice in the pub at Rosehall when we went up to visit them but she essentially stopped playing out after that, she'd still practice and sing at home. I can still hear her voice. There was a sadness in it that lent itself to folk songs of sadness, tragedy, loss and woe of which she had experienced a lot.