In an ironic twist, local legend has it that the same visitor vociferously complained the next morning that the Millstone Block Hotel had bedbugs and he stormed out of Fairport never to return.

The Steeleye Span story began in late 1969 when London-born bass player Ashley Hutchings departed Fairport Convention, the band he had co-founded in 1967.

By this time, folk music had itself moved towards rock and the use of electrified instruments, so Cruel Sister invited comparison with such works as Fairport Convention's Liege and Lief and Steeleye Span's Hark!

Some tracks had a rock element to them, such as " Madder ", while others were closer to Armada's traditional house music roots, such as the title track " Lovebox ", and " Remember ", which has vocals made up entirely of samples of Sandy Denny's singing for Fairport Convention.

It was produced by Trevor Lucas, a member of UK folk rock group Fairport Convention, who had returned to Australia in 1979.

Fairport Convention recorded the song in 1968, adopting the style of the song from the influential traveling singer Margaret Barry, though she herself had learned it from a vinyl recording made by the great Count John McCormack at Abbey Road in 1941.

It was produced by Trevor Lucas, a member of UK folk rock group Fairport Convention, who had returned to Australia in 1979.

In 1969, as Fairport drew increasingly from a British traditional folk repertoire, Matthews found out he had not been invited to a recording session and, after a short discussion with Ashley Hutchings, departed toward a musical direction of his own.

Since 1974, Fairport Convention had been staging the annual Cropredy Festival ; since 1979, this annual reunion had represented the height of their activity in that period as a band, but in the mid-1980s several members became interested in reviving the band more fully, stimulating creativity as a group and in recording new material.

Among these groups from 1967 were Fairport Convention, who had enjoyed some modest mainstream success with three albums of material that was largely either American in origin, or original songs based that were American in style, before a radical change of direction in 1969 with their album Liege and Lief, which came out of the encounter between American inspired folk rock and the products of the English folk revival.

Led Zeppelin had shared a stage with Fairport Convention at the Bath Festival of Blues and Progressive Music in 1970.

Boyd had produced records by artists such as Nick Drake, The Incredible String Band and Fairport Convention and released recordings by these artists as well as others such as Trio Bulgarka on his new label.

Full House, released in 1970, is the fifth album by folk rock group Fairport Convention and was their first album without a female vocalist, as Sandy Denny had left to form Fotheringay.

The song, an outtake from the sessions that produced Dylan's album The Times They Are a-Changin ', has been covered by Fairport Convention and Arlo Guthrie.

The song has also been recorded by Fire + Ice, Gae Bolg, Bert Jansch, The John Renbourn Group, Pentangle, Finest Kind, Martin Carthy, Roy Bailey, Martyn Bates in collaboration with Max Eastley, the Watersons, Steeleye Span, Jethro Tull, Joe Walsh, Fairport Convention, The Minstrels of Mayhem, Galley Beggar, Donnybrook Fair, Oysterband, Frank Black, Chris Wood, Quadriga Consort, Maddy Prior, Heather Alexander, Leslie Fish, Tim van Eyken, Barry Dransfield and many other performers.

Many times they play on stage with guests as Dave Pegg ( Fairport Convention, Jethro Tull ), Jimme O ' Neill ( The Silencers ), Dan Ar Braz, Dr Das ( Asian Dub Foundation ) or Stéfane Mellino ( Les Négresses Vertes )... Their last album " soleil blanc " have been recorded and mixed by the English producer Clive Martin ( Queen, Sting, David Byrne ...) Similarly, EV combined Finnish influences in their Breton folk-rock style, calling it Celto-Finnic rock.

The band have been the headline act at the Middleton Music Festival for several years and have built up a reputation as " The band to see " at the Fairport Convention Cropredy festival fringe.

" Dark-Eyed Molly " has been recorded by Fairport Convention, Eva Cassidy, Stan Rogers and Sheena Wellington.

The district is based in Rochester, Buffalo, and Niagara Falls, and includes parts of Erie, Monroe, Niagara and Orleans Counties ; its easternmost point is in Fairport at the home of its current representative, Democrat Louise Slaughter, who has been the district's representative since 1993.

The one constant in the band ’ s history has been the band leader Ashley Hutchings, founding member of arguably the two other pre-eminent English folk rock groupings Fairport Convention and Steeleye Span, and it has been the home for most of the projects of his long and highly productive career, though in the 2011 incarnation of the band he has handed over the reins to his son Blair Dunlop.

The most notable may have been What's That I Hear, The Songs Of Phil Ochs, a tribute album featuring Phil Ochs songs interpreted by more than a score of popular folksingers, and the Philadelphia Folk Festival 40th Anniversary Anthology, a historic 2 CD collection of recorded Festival performances from Pete Seeger, Bonnie Raitt, Fairport Convention, John Prine, Arlo Guthrie and many others.

Fairport Convention released Liege and Lief in 1969, turning away from American-influenced folk rock toward a sound based on traditional British music and founding the sub-genre of electric folk, to be followed by bands like Steeleye Span and Fotheringay.

He played with several jazz bands before joining the electric folk band, Fairport Convention, in August 1969.

Others, probably influenced by the electric folk pioneered by Fairport Convention from 1969, moved towards more traditional material, a category including Dando Shaft, Amazing Blondel, and Jack the Lad, an offshoot of northern progressive folk group Lindisfarne, who were one of the most successful UK bands of the early 1970s.

* When Fairport Convention appeared to promote their 1969 hit " Si Tu Dois Partir ", drummer Dave Mattacks wore a T-Shirt printed " MIMING ".

It was kicked off by Fairport Convention's 1969 album Liege and Lief, but most significant in the 1970s, when it was taken up by groups such as Pentangle, Steeleye Span and the Albion Band.

Some of the other well known rock bands to play Mothers include: Family, Fleetwood Mac, Eclection, Edgar Broughton Band, Free, Roy Harper, Blodwyn Pig, Strawbs, Quintessence, Steppenwolf, Deep Purple, The Deviants, Jethro Tull, Jon Hiseman's Colosseum, Skid Row ( with Gary Moore ), The Nice, Tyrannosaurus Rex, Elton John, Fairport Convention, King Crimson, Led Zeppelin, Soft Machine, The Chicago Transit Authority, Moby Grape, Canned Heat ( there is a reference to the club in the sleeve notes of their 1969 compilation Canned Heat Cookbook ) and the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band.

An early success was Fairport Convention's 1969 album Liege and Lief, but it became more significant in the 1970s, when it was taken up by groups such as Pentangle, Steeleye Span and the Albion Band.

* 1969 Unhalfbricking ( Fairport Convention )

* 1969 Liege and Lief ( Fairport Convention )

* Fairport Convention, Heyday ( 1986 ) BBC-a release of recordings from 1968 / 1969 UK Island / US Hannibal

Also products of the folk club circuit were Sandy Denny who joined Fairport Convention as a singer in 1967 and Dave Swarbrick, a fiddle player and session musician who reacted positively to the electric music he encountered while working with Fairport in 1969.

Sandy Denny's short-lived Fotheringay was one these and Steeleye Span was another, formed as a more traditionally focused, but still partially electric outfit, by Ashley Hutchings after his departure from Fairport in 1969.

Fairport Convention ’ s singles made very little impact on the British charts, albums sold well in the early 1970s, but they did not surpass their number 17 for Liege and Lief in 1969 until their only top 10 album, Angel Delight in 1971.

Others, probably influenced by the electric folk pioneered by Fairport Convention from 1969, moved towards more traditional material, a category including Dando Shaft, Amazing Blondel, and Jack the Lad, an offshoot of northern progressive folk group Lindisfarne.

The song originally appeared on the 1969 Fairport Convention album, What We Did on Our Holidays, Denny's first album with that group.

* Fairport Convention: Ratcliff Highway is referred to in their song " The Deserter " on the 1969 LP Liege and Lief.

Fairport is a village located in the town of Perinton which is part of Monroe County, New York.

For the Town of Perinton, the Monroe County Sheriff's Department provides primary law enforcement for the town's residents with the exception of the Village of Fairport, which has its own village police department.

He has sung with The Watersons since 1972, was twice a member of the UK electric folk group Steeleye Span, was a member of the Albion Country Band 1973 line-up, with members from the Fairport Convention family and John Kirkpatrick, that recorded the Battle of the Field album, and was part of the innovative Brass Monkey ensemble, which mixed a range of brass instruments with Carthy's guitar and mandolin and John Kirkpatrick's accordion, melodeon and concertina.

Much of the original land which became the village came from Fairport businessman Walter Parce.

Probably the largest is Fairport's Cropredy Convention, which since 1979 has provided a venue for folk, electric folk and rock artists and now attracts up to 20, 000 people a year as well as performances for Fairport Convention and their friends.

Dave Swarbrick, fiddle-player in the English folk-rock band Fairport Convention, came across a series of old newspaper articles about Lee and was inspired to compose the folk rock opera Babbacombe Lee, which was recorded and released by Fairport Convention as an LP in 1971.

The most notable difference is in the vocals, which are sung by Judy Dyble ( Fairport Convention ) rather than Greg Lake.

Much more concerned with traditional music from the region were the group that splintered from them in 1973 Jack the Lad, and another group from which they gained some members Hedgehog Pie, who, for a time, provided a regional answer to the electric folk of bands like Fairport Convention and Steeleye Span.

Members of Fairport still organise the festival and the band gives the closing concert, a marathon performance which lasts over three hours.

Second were groupings created directly by the members or former members of Fairport, which can be seen as the nexus from which a family of organisations or performers emerged.

The electric folk movement in which Western popular music appropriated the English and Celtic traditional music also began in the late 1960s, with the work of groups like Fairport Convention.

Lucas, Conway and Donahue joined Fairport Convention in 1972 to record the Rosie album ( on which some Fotheringay material was also used ).

Matty Grooves Records is a record label which was started by the members of Fairport Convention in 2004, when Woodworm Records was put into hold.

The Folk Song Club is a volunteer run, non-profit organisation which has featured many notable singers and musicians including Eric Bogle, Martin Carthy, Fairport Convention, Vin Garbutt, Bill Jones, John Kirkpatrick, Lindisfarne, Ralph McTell, Show of Hands, Steeleye Span and Richard Thompson.

Shuffle Off ( 1983 ) followed, after which Nicol and Mattacks left to reform Fairport Convention.