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Thread #166031   Message #4112440
Posted By: Tony Rees
05-Jul-21 - 09:46 PM
Thread Name: Making folk club recordings available
Subject: RE: Making folk club recordings available
Just revisiting this thread after some gap...

OK, I have uploaded some audience recordings as audio (or video in one case) to youtube - avoiding (in most cases) either persons/acts who are still around and performing (so as not to possibly hurt their feelings), or recordings of performances that I do not consider quite pass the "worth sharing with posterity" bar. Folk have the opportunity to ask for youtube to take them down, as well, if they object.

Here is the list to date (maybe more in future...) mostly folk or folk-rock, but some jazz and country as well:

Albion Country Band - Norwich Folk Festival 16/6/73
Richard & Linda Thompson - Cambridge Folk Festival 1975
Richard & Linda Thompson - Oxford Town Hall, 22 April 1975 (audio) - Part 1 of 2
Richard & Linda Thompson - Oxford Town Hall, 22 April 1975 (audio) - Part 2 of 2
Dick & Camilla Fegy - London February 1981 (audio)
Richard & Linda Thompson with Simon Nicol - Lesser Free Trade Hall, Manchester, U.K., 7 February 1981 (soundboard recording) (original provided by a friend)
Waso (Belgian Gypsy Jazz) - Sevenoaks, UK, March 1982 (audio recording)
Häns'che Weiss Quintett, Cambridge Folk Festival, UK, 26-27 June 1975 (audio recording)
Jon Delaney Quartet, Hobart 2011 (Gypsy Jazz) - video recording
Scott Hamilton + band, Hobart 1989 (Jazz) - audio recording
Albert Lee + Vince Gill, with the Flying Emus, Melbourne Feb 1988 (audio only)
Fairport Convention: "Folk Meets Pop", 1969 (audio only) (copy provided by a tape trader)

If any of the links do not work, let me know...

To date, this seems like the best method (for me) to make these recordings publicly available. Audio quality is a bit compressed by the youtube algorithm but not noticably so. They can be downloaded from youtube as well by a number of "back door" methods as needed - the one I use is called "Youtube video Downloader" from savefrom.net, but there are others.

I have a lot more video in the drawer, but the performers are in general still around so I am hesitant to upload without their permission, as described earlier in this thread.

Hoping the above is of some interest,

Cheers - Tony Rees, Australia