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TV work by Maddy Prior....[edit]

I am fairly sure I recall Maddy Prior's voice being used as part of a BBC Schools program on 18th Century History in the early 1980's.

This may have been from pre-existing recordings though...

Programme in question entitled 'The Great Wen', with the relevant folk song referencing the 'three legged mare' (in reference to the Tyburn Gallows) Sfan00 IMG (talk) 17:52, 28 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Refers to Nov. and Dec. 2013 as if in the future[edit]

Recent tours and albums liss "In November and December 2013, Prior is also touring again … " as if that were in the future, and no further information is given, although it is now 2018. 2604:2000:F64D:FC00:60ED:23CA:25C5:48E7 (talk) 01:58, 16 September 2018 (UTC) Recent Tours: Maddy is most definitely doing a lot of dates in 2019 for the 50th anniversary tour, I've just been at one.95.175.214.126 (talk) 09:19, 4 December 2019 (UTC)§[reply]

Methodist roots[edit]

Maddy's work with the Carnival Band is based on her personal involvement with the Methodist Church in Kilburn in her early teens. This remains an important part of her persona, and she tries to alternate Autumn tours of Steeleye and Carnival, although the Covid Pandemic has disrupted this. In passing, I've been in her backing choir for the London Cadogan Hall gigs.

The wider setting forms in a communal house, Fairport, in Muswell Hill. From this emerged not only Fairport Convention, but also the core performers of the 1960s Folk Rock scene. Inspired by the EFDSS Ralph Vaughan Williams Memorial Library in Camden's Cecil Sharp House, they broke away from the clones of the elderly vocalists he recorded a century ago, pilloried by Kenneth Williams' character Rambling Sid Rumpo (Round the Horne), and the American folk subset of Country and Western. As the Kilburn Irish community was thriving, Maddy and Tim span off from there into Scottish Borders folklore. 51.186.207.194 (talk) 21:17, 2 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]