Folk Singers Who Are Still Alive

Subject: RE: Folk Singers Who Are Still Alive
From: Crow Sister (off with the fairies)
Date: 17 Oct 10 - 07:54 AM

STING
CHAS AND DAVE

Subject: RE: Folk Singers Who Are Still Alive
From: GUEST,Adam Smith
Date: 17 Oct 10 - 07:47 AM

ADE EDMONSON
JIM MORAY
SHOW OF HANDS

Subject: RE: Folk Singers Who Are Still Alive
From: MGM·Lion
Date: 17 Oct 10 - 07:41 AM

And what about the present, & next, generation of Coppers?

~M~

Subject: RE: Folk Singers Who Are Still Alive
From: MGM·Lion
Date: 17 Oct 10 - 07:40 AM

How old need one be to qualify for inclusion in this thread? I mean, young people like Damien Barber Eliza Carthy Nancy Kerr usw? Do we include them? OR DO WE JUST SAY, WELL THEY WOULD STILL BE ALIVE, WOULDN'T THEY? [not shouting: caps unintentional]. Or sort of more middle-aged like Brian Peters or Tim Laycock or Dick Miles, say? [Forgive me, Brian, Tim, Dick; but you know what I mean]. Has anyone mentioned Martin & Norma; or her brother Mike? Frankie Armstrong? Sandra Kerr? John Kirkpatrick? Ian A Anderson?~~ all sort of nearer my age but not there yet...

~Michael~

Subject: RE: Folk Singers Who Are Still Alive
From: GUEST,Desi C
Date: 17 Oct 10 - 07:38 AM

How about

DAVE SWARBRICK

IAN CAMPBELL

HARVEY ANDREWS

Subject: RE: Folk Singers Who Are Still Alive
From: GUEST,Roger F.
Date: 17 Oct 10 - 07:28 AM

Shirley Collins
Peggy Seager
Al Stewart
Jack King   (Folk Cellar, CSH)
Don Wallace (Hampstead Folk Club)
Dom Bonito (Hampstead Folk Club)
Guernsey Pete
Dave & Toni Arthur
Clive Woolf

Subject: RE: Folk Singers Who Are Still Alive
From: MGM·Lion
Date: 17 Oct 10 - 07:03 AM

I heard recently from Heather Wood who has lived in NY for many years now, and where I have met her once or twice.

~M~

Subject: RE: Folk Singers Who Are Still Alive
From: Susanne (skw)
Date: 17 Oct 10 - 07:01 AM

Ray Fisher
Brian McNeill
Andy Irvine
Arthur Johnston
Heather Heywood

to name but a few I'm glad we're still able to hear

Subject: RE: Folk Singers Who Are Still Alive
From: GUEST,Warwick Slade
Date: 17 Oct 10 - 06:44 AM

The wonderful Terry McDonald

Subject: RE: Folk Singers Who Are Still Alive
From: GUEST,Adam Smith
Date: 17 Oct 10 - 06:24 AM

DICK MILES

Subject: RE: Folk Singers Who Are Still Alive
From: GUEST,Suibhne Astray
Date: 17 Oct 10 - 06:09 AM

As am I, but - who are the singers you give thanks for each & every day? I'm thinking more of the singers you only ever get to hear in sessions and singarounds.

Subject: RE: Folk Singers Who Are Still Alive
From: MGM·Lion
Date: 17 Oct 10 - 05:45 AM

Me too

~M~

Subject: RE: Folk Singers Who Are Still Alive
From: r.padgett
Date: 17 Oct 10 - 05:33 AM

Well I'm still here

Ray

Subject: Folk Singers Who Are Still Alive
From: Jack Blandiver
Date: 17 Oct 10 - 05:03 AM

I'm trying to come up with a list of folk singers who are still alive - not just the well known ones either, but the truly great voices of the clubs sessions & singarounds who make this music what it is, and who, in an ideal world, would be national treasures. Here's a few of my favourites off the top of my head:

Dave Peters (Preston)
Ian McCulloch (Durham)
Esme Ryder (Northumberland)
Ross Campbell (Fleetwood)
John Jocys (Cheshire)
Tom Walsh (Preston)
Piers Cawley (Doncaster)
Clive Powell (Edinburgh)
Robin Dale (Hartlepool)

Let's have few more!