The Druids

The Druids were an excellent acoustic folk quintet who started a touch too late to attain main popularity, amid the current presence of outfits like Steeleye Period and Fairport Convention. Shaped being a trio in 1969 by ex-pop musician John Adams (vocals, mandolin, bass), and folk performers Keith Hendrick (vocals, electric guitar, banjo) and Mick Hennessy (vocals, bass), the group performed its first gig on the Manchester Sports activities Guild in November of this year. A couple of months afterwards, itinerant fiddler Dave Broughton became a member of them, and in 1970, while showing up within a documentary film about British folk music artists, they met 5th member Judi Longden, who added her tone of voice towards the proceedings. Using their reliance on acoustic musical instruments, the Druids had been a lot more tradition-based than either Fairport Convention or Steeleye Period. Their repertory contains traditional British, Scottish, Welsh, and Irish tracks organized for four voices, and their music got a pleasingly archaic experience, not really resembling folk-rock in any way. If anything, they sounded similar to the type of outfit a.L. Lloyd or Ralph Vaughan Williams (editors from the definitive assortment of British folk tracks) could have accepted of, with out a track of uncalled for style or pretentiousness. The group split up in the first 1970s, and Adams afterwards resulted in as an associate of the group Muckram Wakes and the brand new Victory Music group. They left out a little but pleasing documented legacy, modern with the very best many years of Fairport Convention and Steeleye Period but radically conventional in its method of the music.