Obit: Tim Hart (9Jan 1948-24Dec 2009)Steeleye Span

Subject: RE: Obit: Tim Hart (9 Jan 1948- 24 Dec 2009)
From: GUEST,Clive Pownceby
Date: 30 Dec 09 - 05:41 AM

Tim and Maddy were Guests at Southport's Bothy in September 1968 - one of those magical evenings that people were talking about for years afterwards - in fact it's STILL spoken of when discussions of the "do you remember?" variety arise.
My sincere condolences to the family and all who knew and worked with Tim.

Subject: RE: Obit: Tim Hart (9 Jan 1948- 24 Dec 2009)
From: GUEST,Kim Birley
Date: 30 Dec 09 - 05:42 AM

I was completely shocked to hear about this. I feel a part of me has gone! I immediately went and watched my favourite Youtube video, of Steeleye Span performing 'The Lark in the Morning'. That's Tim playing sitting down - check it out, it's completely beautiful. I'll never hear it from now on without thinking of him.

Subject: RE: Obit: Tim Hart (9 Jan 1948- 24 Dec 2009)
From: MGM·Lion
Date: 30 Dec 09 - 05:55 AM

Agreed re Steeleye Lark In Morning — beautifully performed throughout, but it was Tim's beautiful dulcimer intro which made this track so very special.

Subject: RE: Obit: Tim Hart (9 Jan 1948- 24 Dec 2009)
From: GUEST,Peter Laban
Date: 30 Dec 09 - 05:55 AM

Obit in Guardian today

Subject: RE: Obit: Tim Hart (9 Jan 1948- 24 Dec 2009)
From: katlaughing
Date: 30 Dec 09 - 12:32 PM

This is so sad!

Subject: RE: Tim Hart (9 Jan 1948- 24 Dec 2009)Steeleye Spa
From: Folknacious
Date: 30 Dec 09 - 12:35 PM

Oddly, they just announced it as "news" on the BBC Radio 4 "PM" programme about 30 mins ago, as if it had just happened today rather than Christmas Eve. Still, at least they did it.

Subject: RE: OBIT Tim Hart (9Jan 1948-24 Dec 2009)Steeleye Span
From: black walnut
Date: 30 Dec 09 - 12:48 PM

Roots Music remembers Tim Hart - Click Here

Article by Eric Thom, includes YouTube Video of All Around My Hat

~b.w.

Subject: RE: OBIT Tim Hart (9Jan 1948-24 Dec 2009)Steeleye Span
From: GUEST,geoff woolfe
Date: 30 Dec 09 - 02:32 PM

like everyone - this has come as a shock - I remember Tim as a teenage floor singer at the St Albans club - then as a duo with Maddy - they dropped into our singaround club at Croxley Green in 67 - and I also remember a weekend at Pendley Manor when we all performed in Maria Marten - Tim amd Maddy sang'If I were a Carpenter'
in the corridor.
An underrated contributor to the 60s folk revival ( by some )
I think of him now as a pioneer and with hindsight as important as many of the bigger names of the 60s-70s

Subject: RE: OBIT Tim Hart (9Jan 1948-24 Dec 2009)Steeleye
From: Peter Kasin
Date: 30 Dec 09 - 04:44 PM

Very sad! Below The Salt was my intro to the rock generation's participation in the British folk music revival, and still is a treasured album.

Chanteyranger

Subject: RE: OBIT Tim Hart (9Jan 1948-24 Dec 2009)Steeleye Span
From: growler
Date: 30 Dec 09 - 05:20 PM

I've just listened to Tim and Maddy singing 'The Gardener'. His death is sad, but with songs like that, recorded, who will ever forget him

Subject: RE: OBIT Tim Hart (9Jan 1948-24 Dec 2009)Steeleye Span
From: The Vulgar Boatman
Date: 30 Dec 09 - 05:29 PM

Lovely man - talented, generous, taught me the basics of the dulcimer. May he come to his place in peace. From yet another 48-er.

Subject: RE: OBIT Tim Hart (9Jan 1948-24 Dec 2009)Steeleye Span
From: black walnut
Date: 30 Dec 09 - 08:17 PM

Oh, V.B. What a gift! I take it you mean the fretted dulcimer? I think that is what Tim played, but I may be mistaken.

~b.w.

Subject: RE: OBIT Tim Hart (9Jan 1948-24 Dec 2009)Steeleye Span
From: My guru always said
Date: 31 Dec 09 - 04:28 AM

So very sorry to hear of Tim's passing. My condolences to his family and I'm glad that they have been able to see how we all felt about him here.

Steeleye were my introduction to folk as with so many others. My older brother played Steeleye LP's incessantly and I listened avidly through the bedroom wall.

Thanks Tim and rest easy.
Hil

Subject: RE: OBIT Tim Hart (9Jan 1948-24 Dec 2009)Steeleye
From: GUEST,Ed
Date: 31 Dec 09 - 05:03 AM

Smedley said:

It's very telling, and angering, that nothing about his death has appeared on the BBC News website

It kind of has....

Tim Hart, of folk group Steeleye Span, dies aged 61

Subject: RE: OBIT Tim Hart (9Jan 1948-24 Dec 2009)Steeleye Span
From: AllisonA(Animaterra)
Date: 31 Dec 09 - 08:10 AM

Sally and Chris, let me add my condolences to your family and the world for such a great loss. I am another one whose whole taste in English folk was formed by Tim, Maddie and the rest of Steeleye Span. Thank you for taking the time to visit this site during such a difficult time.

The music lives on.

Subject: RE: OBIT Tim Hart (9Jan 1948-24 Dec 2009)Steeleye Span
From: Smedley
Date: 31 Dec 09 - 01:28 PM

Ed, yes I noticed the BBC coverage. It's still pretty unimpressive that it took then several days.

Subject: RE: OBIT Tim Hart (9Jan 1948-24 Dec 2009)Steeleye
From: GUEST,Ed
Date: 31 Dec 09 - 01:44 PM

I noticed the BBC coverage. It's still pretty unimpressive that it took then several days,

It's the BBC's shortest staffed week of the year. Cut them a bit of slack!

Or maybe you should refuse to pay your licence fee?

Subject: RE: OBIT Tim Hart (9Jan 1948-24 Dec 2009)Steeleye Span
From: Smedley
Date: 31 Dec 09 - 02:08 PM

I don't want to swerve this thread into media-related bickering, but the reason I made the point was that a musician of such significance in other musical genres would probably not have had to wait so long. That's all.

Subject: RE: OBIT Tim Hart (9Jan 1948-24 Dec 2009)Steeleye
From: GUEST,Ed
Date: 01 Jan 10 - 02:08 AM

I don't want to swerve this thread into media-related bickering

Nor do I, but your original post was exactly that...

Rest in peace, Tim. Thanks for the songs.

Subject: RE: OBIT Tim Hart (9Jan 1948-24 Dec 2009)Steeleye
From: Bonnie Shaljean
Date: 01 Jan 10 - 03:12 AM

His was one of the first voices I heard when I moved to England in 1972. I loved it then and I still do. A light has gone out, but the sound lives on. R.I.P.

Subject: Tim Hart RIP
From: GUEST,Lindsay In Wales
Date: 01 Jan 10 - 09:47 AM

Just read in the online edition of the Herts Advertiser, that Tim Hart, Bass-player and founder member with Maddy Prior, of Steeleye Span, died yesterday aged 61. He had apparently been ill for some time.

Subject: RE: OBIT Tim Hart (9Jan 1948-24 Dec 2009)Steeleye Span
From: GUEST,mick howson
Date: 01 Jan 10 - 11:44 AM

i remember john peel was a great fan of tim and maddy and i went out and bought their first album after hearing a session on a little transistor radio. saw him many times over the years and he was one of the pioneers along with simon nichol on the appalachian dulcimer,both of them using electric versions.
lovely to see that he enjoyed his years in la gomera and found happiness and success as a writer and photographer and that his musical talent is so celebrated and lives on in his grandson.

Subject: RE: OBIT: Tim Hart (9Jan 1948-24Dec 2009)Steeleye Span
From: olddude
Date: 01 Jan 10 - 02:24 PM

We lose all the great ones I think anymore. It is awful getting older to see our music friends pass on

Subject: RE: OBIT: Tim Hart (9Jan 1948-24Dec 2009)Steeleye Span
From: GUEST,Derek Schofield
Date: 02 Jan 10 - 07:25 AM

Obituaries in today's (Saturday) Times and Independent.
Derek

Subject: RE: OBIT: Tim Hart (9Jan 1948-24Dec 2009)Steeleye Span
From: GUEST,Chris Hart - Tim's uncle
Date: 07 Jan 10 - 11:41 AM

Tim's UK Funeral and Memorial service will be held on Sunday 7th February 2010 at 2.30 p.m. at St. Saviours Church, Sandpit Lane, St. Albans. All are welcome. If anybody requires details of where to find the church please email me at [e-mail].

If anybody knows a way of getting this information more widely known please let me know, or pass the information on yourselves.

Chris Hart

Subject: RE: OBIT: Tim Hart (9Jan 1948-24Dec 2009)Steeleye Span
From: My guru always said
Date: 08 Jan 10 - 03:29 AM

Thanks for popping the info here Chris, I'm sure that people here will pass the word. Many thanks to for the welcoming invitation. St Saviour's postcode appears to be AL1 4DF for those who are wondering.

Subject: RE: OBIT: Tim Hart (9Jan 1948-24Dec 2009)Steeleye Span
From: JohnB
Date: 08 Jan 10 - 11:40 AM

Somehow I have missed this thread until now.
I wish it was something I was not reading now.
Always one of of my favourites, I have Folk Songs of Olde England 1 and 2 and Summer Solstice on both Vinyl and CD, plus all the early Steeleye albumns.
My condolences to his family and friends, another great one singing in the Heavenly Choir..
JohnB

Subject: RE: OBIT: Tim Hart (9Jan 1948-24Dec 2009)Steeleye Span
From: Reinhard
Date: 28 Jan 10 - 04:15 PM

Park Records have just reissued Tim Hart's two nursery rhyme LPs on a double CD to help the next generation discover and remember this wonderful music.

I understand that the reissue was originally planned to raise funds for Tim's medical bills but sadly was too late for that.