Google also came up with this quote from the 1999 Tenterden Folk Festival:

Also on this year's guest list are Ian and David Campbell. As David lives locally, in Bethersden, it seemed natural for him to get involved in the Festival. When he suggested that we get his father, Ian, along as well, it seemed like an opportunity too good to be missed. The Ian Campbell Folk Group was very well known in the 1960's and 70's. Ian was born and raised in Aberdeen, until he was fourteen, when his family moved to Birmingham. Although both of his parents were lifelong singers (and were to become a popular turn among traditionalists), his own music making began with The Clarion Singers, a socialist choir, and was kicked into another gear by what he usually refers to as "the great skiffle disaster". Ian formed a group, including his young sister Lorna, whose extra-ordinary voice was soon celebrated as perhaps the most dramatic of her generation and inspired many women singing today.




Under the influence of Ewan MacColl, with whom he was to work on the famous Radio Ballads, Ian abandoned the standard repertoire of Leadbelly, Guthrie and the like, and concentrated on the traditional music and song of the British Isles. The Ian Campbell Folk Group quickly became the most popular such group in the country, and hosted one of the most successful folk clubs, The Jug o' Punch. As well as the Campbells' outstanding singing, the group featured the instrumental combination of Dave Swarbrick's fiddle and John Dunkerley's banjo. Dave Pegg was a later member.

The group retired in the 1970's when Ian went to university, and he has since worked in broadcasting, teaching and community arts. He has continued with various song writing and composition projects, but has performed in public only occasionally, when asked. He's now resident in Ireland, and so is to be heard even less frequently in England so we are extremely lucky to have him booked for Tenterden Folk Festival.

RtS

(I'll get me coat..)