Flamboyant Folkies

Subject: Flamboyant Folkies
From: Shug Hanlan
Date: 09 Nov 18 - 03:33 PM

Still on about Billy Connolly, this time his Big Yin stage persona (banana boots etc.) Does anyone recall any other folk performers who wore eyecatching stage costumes?

Subject: RE: Flamboyant Folkies
From: Shug Hanlan
Date: 09 Nov 18 - 04:18 PM

Or it might be the opposite as in the legend of Lomax insisting that Leadbelly wear prison stripes.

Subject: RE: Flamboyant Folkies
From: RTim
Date: 09 Nov 18 - 05:01 PM

Jasper Carrot wore different stage clothes when he was on the Folk Circuit...but it was so long ago I have forgotten what he wore..??

Tim Radford

Subject: RE: Flamboyant Folkies
From: Anne Neilson
Date: 09 Nov 18 - 05:24 PM

Sid Kipper!

Subject: RE: Flamboyant Folkies
From: The Sandman
Date: 10 Nov 18 - 03:30 AM

Peter Bellamy

Subject: RE: Flamboyant Folkies
From: GUEST,Peter
Date: 10 Nov 18 - 08:28 AM

Never having known any of the Young Tradition at that time I never knew how much was stage kit. At 17 I did think that they looked pretty cool.

Subject: RE: Flamboyant Folkies
From: Mark Ross
Date: 10 Nov 18 - 10:38 AM

Utah Phillips was always the best dressed folkie I have ever known. Although sometimes he would would wear a long multi-collared caftan in hot weather at festivals, looking, for all the world like Moses preparing to part the Red Sea.

Mark ROss

Subject: RE: Flamboyant Folkies
From: Jim Carroll
Date: 10 Nov 18 - 11:47 AM

Fred Jordan!
Jim Carroll

Subject: RE: Flamboyant Folkies
From: Shug Hanlan
Date: 10 Nov 18 - 04:06 PM

Seriously! The one and only sartorial and satirical Sid Kipper?

Subject: RE: Flamboyant Folkies
From: meself
Date: 10 Nov 18 - 04:06 PM

Re: Leadbelly and prison stripes. That was Lomax Sr, as I recall. He was later regretful about that - again, as I recall.

Subject: RE: Flamboyant Folkies
From: GUEST
Date: 11 Nov 18 - 05:22 AM

Ying Tong John frequently wore a pair of double ended wellies

Subject: RE: Flamboyant Folkies
From: Johnny J
Date: 11 Nov 18 - 05:22 AM

Not particularly flamboyant but could you imagine Jez Lowe without his "hoops"?

Subject: RE: Flamboyant Folkies
From: Shug Hanlan
Date: 11 Nov 18 - 07:56 AM

Surely every Folk Club had Star Changing Rooms, Makeup Artists and a Costume Department?

Subject: RE: Flamboyant Folkies
From: Johnny J
Date: 11 Nov 18 - 08:23 AM

Jim Malcolm in action

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HC0E7oi4VPA&start_radio=1&list=RDHC0E7oi4VPA

Subject: RE: Flamboyant Folkies
From: Bugsy
Date: 11 Nov 18 - 10:23 AM

Wasn't there a little bespectacled chap named Mike Harding about once upon a time?
Cheers

Bugsy

Subject: RE: Flamboyant Folkies
From: BobL
Date: 12 Nov 18 - 03:09 AM

Caller Chris Turner (now retired). Although it could be said that as M.C. he needed to stand out in a crowd whose dress, especially at festivals, might not be exactly described as staid.

Subject: RE: Flamboyant Folkies
From: Mr Red
Date: 12 Nov 18 - 03:13 AM

Hmmmm.

and mono-chromatically speaking.........................

Subject: RE: Flamboyant Folkies
From: Tattie Bogle
Date: 12 Nov 18 - 01:31 PM

Quite a few folk club MCs are renowned for their Hawaiian shirts!

Subject: RE: Flamboyant Folkies
From: Jack Campin
Date: 14 Nov 18 - 09:24 AM

The klezmer clarinetist Naftule Brandwein used to perform in a suit covered in lightbulbs wired up to the mains.

It would be hard to ignore the accordionist Renee de la Prade.

Subject: RE: Flamboyant Folkies
From: nigelgatherer
Date: 16 Nov 18 - 08:22 AM

Robin Hall, as evidence by a couple of Hall & Macgregor LP covers...

One Over the Eight (1969)

Subject: RE: Flamboyant Folkies
From: Cool Beans
Date: 16 Nov 18 - 09:25 AM

Phil Ochs, in his gold lame suit days.