ASHLEY HUTCHINGS with Blair Dunlop
Sat, 29 Mar
|Holy Cross Church, Crediton
The Legendary Ashley Hutchings - 'The Guvnor' - founder of Fairport Convention, Steeleye Span and The Albion Band celebrates his 80th birthday touring with his son Blair Dunlop in a very special concert. Tickets from www.ticketsource.co.uk/creditonartscentre
Time & Location
29 Mar 2025, 19:30 – 22:00
Holy Cross Church, Crediton, Church St, Crediton EX17 2AQ, UK
About the event
Ashley Hutchings
with special guest Blair DunlopA father-son celebration of Ashley’s 80th birthday with words and music from a life in folk music and beyond.
“My friend Ashley is the Godfather of Folk Rock. He made us a genre we couldn’t refuse” Bob Dylan
Ashley Hutchings ‘The Guvnor’ formed Fairport Convention in 1967, a group that went on to invent British folk-rock with the album Liege & Lief - an album that was voted the ‘Most Important Folk Album of All Time' by BBC Radio 2 listeners in 2002, and at the 2006 BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards it won the award for ‘Most influential Folk Album of all time’. He subsequently formed Steeleye Span who also had enormous success and then the first of many Albion Bands. By 1977 the Albions became virtually the house band at the National Theatre with Ashley as Music Director. The band provided music and acted in many plays…