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June Tabor

June Tabor was born in Warwick. She worked as a librarian and with her then husband David Taylor, ran a restaurant called "Passepartout" in Penrith, Cumbria, England before finally becoming a full-time singer in the 1990s. Like many others she was inspired to sing by hearing Anne Briggs. In 1965 June heard the EP Hazards of Love. "I went and locked myself in the bathroom for a fortnight and drove my mother mad. I learnt the songs on that EP note for note, twiddle for twiddle. That's how I started singing. If I hadn't heard her I'd have probably done something entirely different." She went to Oxford University and appeared on University Challenge in 1968, as captain of one of the college teams. She joined the Heritage Society and sang with a group called Mistral. One of her earliest recording was in 1972 on an anthology called "Stagfolk Live". Her breakthrough occurred in 1976 when she recorded the album Silly Sisters with Maddy Prior and had her own first album. She later joined again with Prior, this time using the name Silly Sisters for their duo. Image File history File links June_Tabor. ... Image File history File links June_Tabor. ... Map sources for Warwick at grid reference SP2865 Warwick (pronounced warrick ) is the historic county town of Warwickshire in England and has a population of 25,434 (2001 census). ... Anne Briggs 1973 album Sing a Song For You Anne Patricia Briggs (born 1944), known as Anne Briggs, is an English folk singer. ... 1965 (MCMLXV) was a common year starting on Friday (the link is to a full 1965 calendar). ... 1976 (MCMLXXVI) was a leap year starting on Thursday (the link is to a full 1976 calendar). ... This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ... Maddy Prior is a British folk singer. ... The Silly Sisters is the name of the folk music duo formed by Maddy Prior and June Tabor. ...

Starting in 1977 Martin Simpson joined her in the recording studio for three albums before he moved to America in 1987 to be with his American wife Jessica. In 1992 Elvis Costello wrote "All this Useless Beauty" specifically for June, and she recorded it on "Angel Tiger". Elvis didn't record it until 1996, on his album of the same title. At about this time June moved from Cumbria to Wales, and turned professional. Over the years she has wandered into areas that some might call jazz or art-song, but always with a sparse and sombre tone to it. Her 2003 album An Echo of Hooves marked a return to the traditional ballad after an absence of several years, and was highly acclaimed. "Always" (2005) is a boxed set of 4 CDs, spanning her whole career and containing rare recordings. Martin Simpson has returned from America to be a guest guitarist on recent albums. Martin Simpson (b 1953) is a British guitarist. ... Declan Patrick Aloysius MacManus, aka Elvis Costello. ... Jazz is an original American musical art form originating around the early 1920s in New Orleans, rooted in Western music technique and theory, and is marked by the profound cultural contributions of African Americans. ... 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... A ballad is a story in a song, usually a narrative song or poem. ...

In 1990, June Tabor recorded an album with the folk-rock band The Oyster Band titled "Freedom and Rain". She went on tour with the Oyster band, and they Rykodisc published a limited run promotional live album the following year. Many of her current fans first discovered her through this tour and album with the Oyster Band, which has a large international following. This article is about the year. ... Oysterband (originally Oyster Band) is a British folk-rock band formed in Canterbury in 1979. ...

In 2004 she was named Folk Singer of the Year at the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards. 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards celebrate outstanding achievement during the previous year within the field of folk music. ...

Discography

• Airs and Graces (1976)
• Ashes and Diamonds (1977)
• A Cut Above (1980)
• Abyssinians (1983)
• The Peel Sessions (1986)
• Aqaba (1988)
• Some Other Time (1989)
• Angel Tiger (1992)
• Against the Streams (1994)
• Aleyn (1997)
• On Air (1998)
• A Quiet Eye (1999)
• Rosa Mundi (2001)
• An Echo of Hooves (2003)
• Always (2005)
• At the Wood's Heart (2005)

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External Links

• official June Tabor web site]
• June Tabor page on the Ecto Guide