Former Fairport Convention guitarist Richard Thomspon has come to the rescue of his former bandmates, stepping in to replace Trevor Horn at this year's Cropredy Festival, after the latter was forced ...

The weather forecast earlier in the week looked bad, as we packed for Cropredy, however it was just a case of packing the right clothes for the right conditions, as the compact well drained site was ...

Rick Wakeman, Trevor Horn, Focus and Big Big Train are amiong the prog names who have been announced for next year's Cropredy Festival, along side the ever-present host band Fairport Convention. Now ...

A T-Shirt slogan neatly summarised the Festival as "Cropredy, a Weekend at the Bar". Boasting twenty thousand or so regulars, this is quite some bar and it has a pretty impressive beer garden to boot.

Some festivalgoers were in a rush to get the best spot in front of the stage. The calm before the storm... Fairport's Cropredy Convention opened its gates at 14:00 BST on Thursday. Thousands of ...

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It's a week to go until this years Cropredy and I'm trying to organise my disorganised, and un-organisable, friends into actually doing some forward planning, but we never do. Armed with only our ...

Nearly every year in recent times has seen one celebration or another going on at Fairport’s Cropredy Convention. Last year it was the 30th anniversary since the death of Sandy Denny, 2007 was 40 ...

I really wasn’t sure what to expect when I was told we’d be heading to the Fairport Cropredy Convention this summer. Everyone knows about Glastonbury, or Reading and Leeds, but I’d never even heard of ...

Before Thursday night at Cropredy, if you asked me who Lindisfarne were, I would have said 'the band who accompanied wayward footballer Paul Gascoigne in a novelty version of Fog on the Tyne'.