Former Fairport Conference guitarist Richard Thomspon has come to the rescue of his former bandmates, stepping in to exchange Trevor Horn at this 12 months’s Cropredy Pageant, after the latter used to be pressured to withdraw from this 12 months’s tournament for well being causes.
Thompson will now headline the Friday evening on the three-day tournament, which takes position at at Cropredy close to Banbury on Thursday 8, Friday 9 and Saturday 10 August 2024.
“I will be able to’t let you know what a pleasure it’s to be again at Cropredy,” says Thompson. “This all the time seems like house – an opportunity to meet up with outdated Fairport bandmates, and to play in entrance of the most efficient folk-rock target market on the planet. Roll on August!”
“Of all of the gala’s we play, Fairport’s Cropredy Conference is my favorite for plenty of causes,” provides Horn. “So it’s with nice disappointment that I will have to cancel our look this 12 months. That is because of a well being factor from which I’ve now not made the restoration I used to be anticipating.
“I am hoping Fairport will invite us to play subsequent 12 months. In the meantime, my trustworthy apologies and my highest needs for this 12 months’s tournament.”
Thompson joins Fairport Conference, Rick Wakeman, Focal point, Giant Giant Teach a few of the prog-adjacent acts showing this 12 months. There can also be appearances from DeWolff, Kathryn Tickell and The Darkening, Eddi Reader, Baskery, Black Water County, Elles Bailey, Richard Digance, Banquet of Fiddles, Ranagri, Spooky Mens Chorale and SilverBlues.
Tier One grownup tickets get started at £165; Formative years tickets (12-17yo) are priced at £85 and under-12s are unfastened.
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