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09 Nov 18 - 03:33 PM (#3960948) Subject: Flamboyant Folkies From: Shug Hanlan 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? |
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09 Nov 18 - 04:18 PM (#3960954) Subject: RE: Flamboyant Folkies From: Shug Hanlan Or it might be the opposite as in the legend of Lomax insisting that Leadbelly wear prison stripes. |
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09 Nov 18 - 05:01 PM (#3960959) Subject: RE: Flamboyant Folkies From: RTim 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 |
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09 Nov 18 - 05:24 PM (#3960964) Subject: RE: Flamboyant Folkies From: Anne Neilson Sid Kipper! |
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10 Nov 18 - 03:30 AM (#3961024) Subject: RE: Flamboyant Folkies From: The Sandman Peter Bellamy |
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10 Nov 18 - 08:28 AM (#3961060) Subject: RE: Flamboyant Folkies From: GUEST,Peter 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. |
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10 Nov 18 - 10:38 AM (#3961082) Subject: RE: Flamboyant Folkies From: Mark Ross 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 |
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10 Nov 18 - 11:47 AM (#3961102) Subject: RE: Flamboyant Folkies From: Jim Carroll Fred Jordan! Jim Carroll |
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10 Nov 18 - 04:06 PM (#3961129) Subject: RE: Flamboyant Folkies From: Shug Hanlan Seriously! The one and only sartorial and satirical Sid Kipper? |
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10 Nov 18 - 04:06 PM (#3961130) Subject: RE: Flamboyant Folkies From: meself Re: Leadbelly and prison stripes. That was Lomax Sr, as I recall. He was later regretful about that - again, as I recall. |
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11 Nov 18 - 05:22 AM (#3961177) Subject: RE: Flamboyant Folkies From: GUEST Ying Tong John frequently wore a pair of double ended wellies |
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11 Nov 18 - 05:22 AM (#3961178) Subject: RE: Flamboyant Folkies From: Johnny J Not particularly flamboyant but could you imagine Jez Lowe without his "hoops"? |
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11 Nov 18 - 07:56 AM (#3961187) Subject: RE: Flamboyant Folkies From: Shug Hanlan Surely every Folk Club had Star Changing Rooms, Makeup Artists and a Costume Department? |
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11 Nov 18 - 08:23 AM (#3961189) Subject: RE: Flamboyant Folkies From: Johnny J Jim Malcolm in action https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HC0E7oi4VPA&start_radio=1&list=RDHC0E7oi4VPA |
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11 Nov 18 - 10:23 AM (#3961203) Subject: RE: Flamboyant Folkies From: Bugsy Wasn't there a little bespectacled chap named Mike Harding about once upon a time? Cheers Bugsy |
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12 Nov 18 - 03:09 AM (#3961289) Subject: RE: Flamboyant Folkies From: BobL 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. |
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12 Nov 18 - 03:13 AM (#3961291) Subject: RE: Flamboyant Folkies From: Mr Red Hmmmm. and mono-chromatically speaking......................... |
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12 Nov 18 - 01:31 PM (#3961375) Subject: RE: Flamboyant Folkies From: Tattie Bogle Quite a few folk club MCs are renowned for their Hawaiian shirts! |
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14 Nov 18 - 09:24 AM (#3961611) Subject: RE: Flamboyant Folkies From: Jack Campin 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. |
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16 Nov 18 - 08:22 AM (#3961935) Subject: RE: Flamboyant Folkies From: nigelgatherer Robin Hall, as evidence by a couple of Hall & Macgregor LP covers... One Over the Eight (1969) |
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16 Nov 18 - 09:25 AM (#3961944) Subject: RE: Flamboyant Folkies From: Cool Beans Phil Ochs, in his gold lame suit days. |