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- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United Kingdom
- Active from
- 1941-04-05
- Active to
- 2016-06-03
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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
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- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Eric
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Place of birth
- New Malden
- Place of death
- London
- Occupation
- recording artist
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Genre
- folk music
- Instrument
- voice
- Official website
- www.folkicons.co.uk/swarb.htm
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- Dave Swarbrick.jpg
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- Dave Swarbrick
- manner of death
- natural causes
- date of birth
- 1941-04-05
- date of death
- 2016-06-03
- member of
- Fairport Convention
- cause of death
- pneumonia
- birth name
- David Cyril Eric Swarbrick
- name in native language
- Dave Swarbrick
- start of work period
- 2016-00-00
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