Dave Swarbrick
About the artist
Dave Swarbrick (born 5 April 1941; died 3 June 2016) was an English folk musician. He played violin, viola, mandolin, and guitar. His work with Fairport Convention from 1969 is usually credited with leading them to produce their seminal album Liege and Lief (1969) which initiated the electric folk movement. Swarbrick was born in New Malden, Surrey and grew up in Birmingham. He learnt the rudiments of the violin from a local fiddler and attended the Birmingham College of Art (now the Birmingham Institute of Art and Design) in the late 1950s.
Top songs
- The Cuckoo's Nest
- Once I Loved a Maiden Fair
- Boadicea
- Hens March to the Middens
- Spanish Ladies Medley
- Byker Hill
- Bottom of the Puch Bowl / The Swallow Tail / Marquis of Tullybardine
- The Teetotallers Medley
- Gurty's Frolics
- The Swallows Tail / Rakes of Kildare / Blackthron Stick
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- The Salamanca Medley
- My Singing Bird
- Merry Boys Of Greenland
- The Blackbird
- Carthy's March
- Hullichan's Chorus Jig
- It Suits Me Well
- The Killarney Boys of Pleasure
- Bonaparte's Retreat
- Lietrum Fancy Medley
- Lord Mayo
- Hole In the Wall
- Sheebeg and Sheemore
- Porcupine Rag
- The Kid On the Mountain
- Planxty Morgan Mawgan
- The Heilanman / Drowsy Maggie
- Dill Pickles Ray
- Shannon Bells / Fairy Dance / Miss McLeod's Reel
- Staten Island / Jimmy Allen
- The Nightingale
- Where I Like to Stand
- Ben Dorian
- The Ace And Deuce Of Pipering
- Come Wind Come Rain
- The 79th's Farewell to Gibraltar
- Barney Brallaghan / The New Widow Well Married / Paddy Be Aisy
- Iris's Song for Us
- Villafjord / Fourposter Bed
- The King of the Fairies
- Father Kelly / Skopje / Sligo Maid
- Spanish Medley Ladies
- The Athole Highlanders
- Arthur McBride / Snug In the Blanket
- The Kilarney Boys Of Pleasure
- The Rocky Road to Dublin / Sir Phillip McHugh
- Scarborough Fair
- Hullichans / Chorus Jig
- High Germany
- The White Cockade / Doc Boyd's Jig / Durham Rangers
- Jolly Tinker / Rags & Tatters
- The Reel Of the Burnt Potato
- The Coulin
- Time To Ring Some Changes
- The Flowers Of Edinburgh
- Sheagh of Rye / The Friar's Breeches
- Chief O'Neill's Favourite / Newcastle Hornpipe
- Carthy's March / The Lemon Tree
- Antarctic Ice
- Miss Monaghan
- The Trees They Do Grow High
- Teribus / Farewell to Aberdeen
- Sean O'Dwyer of the Glen / The Hag With the Money / Sleepy Maggie
- Staten Island/Jimmy Allen
- The Man of Burnham Town
- Derwentwater's Farewell / The Noble Squire Dacre
- Father Kelly/Skopje/Sligo Maid
- Wat Ye Wha I Met the Streen / The Ribbons of the Red Head Girl
- My Heart's in New South Wales
- Bottom Of The Puch Bowl/The Swallow Tail/Marquis Of Tullybardine
- When the Battle Is Over
- sovay
- The Ace & Deuce of Pipering
- The Wind that Shakes the Barley
- Villafjord/Fourposter Bed
- March of the Last
- Wishing / The Victor's Return / The Gravel Walk
- Barney Brallaghan/The New Widow Well Married/Paddy Be Aisy
- Wat Ye Wha I Met the Streen / The Ribbons of the Redhead Girl / Ril Gan Ainm
- The Swallows Tail / Rakes Of Kildare / Blackthorn Stick
- Sword Dance / Young Black Cow
- The Seven Keys
- Jolly Tinker/Rags & Tatters
- Arthur McBride/Snug In The Blanket
- Keech In The Creel
- The Rakes of Sollohad
- Mrs. Marriott
- Spanish ladies
- John Barleycorn
- Shepherd's Hey
- The Two Magicians
- Two Magicians
- Sir Charles Coote / Smiths
- The Humours Of Capa
- Rosie
- The Rocky Road To Dublin/Sir Phillip McHugh
- The Heilanman/Drowsy Maggie
- Wishing/The Victor's Return/The Gravel Walk
- Prince Heathen
- Sir Charles Coote/Smiths
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