A celebration of the late Pentangle guitarist Bert Jansch will take place at London's Festival Hall on the South Bank on November 4. Jansch's former Pentangle compatriot, singer Jacqui McShee will ...
Pentangle released six albums between 1968 and 1972, but the wealth of bonus material here expands this fine collection to a mammoth 14 discs of vinyl. Out-takes, live tracks and material ...
Known for their brilliantly successful combination of traditional and non-traditional, Pentangle forged a whole new era in folk. The original band played such stellar gigs as the Isle-of-Wight ...
Jacqui McShee feels lucky to be singing the blues. With songs such as Born Under a Bad Sign and Been Down So Long (It Feels Like Up To Me) in the blues canon, good luck and the blues haven't often ...
Pentangle, live in 1969. Left to right: John Renbourne, Danny Thompson, Jacqui McShee, Bert Jansch and Terry Cox Bert Jansch, Renbourne’s guitar playing foil in Pentangle, had in 1966 already issued a ...
No one wore flowers in their hair but this was nonetheless a show tinged with 1960s nostalgia. Both bands had commercial recognition way back then and both have just one original member still ...
LONDON — Guitarist-songwriter John Renbourn, who founded the folk group Pentangle, has died at his home in Hawick, Scotland. He was 70. Renbourn had been on tour with the guitarist and singer Wizz ...
Amongst the artists who, to a greater or lesser extent, explored ways to marry traditional British folk with the energy of rock in the late 1960s and early 1970s, Fairport Convention, Steeleye Span ...
Pentangle’s music never fit within well-defined musical categories. As its many-sided name suggests, the group incorporated elements of traditional British folk music, blues, jazz and ’60s psychedelic ...