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The Fairfield Four is an American gospel group that has existed for over 90 years. They started as a trio in Nashville, Tennessee's Fairfield Baptist Church in 1921. They were designated as National Heritage Fellows in 1989 by the National Endowment for the Arts. The group won the 1998 Grammy for Best Traditional Soul Gospel Album. As a quintet, they featured briefly in the motion picture O Brother, Where Art Thou?.
The group gained more popular recognition after appearing on John Fogerty's 1997 album Blue Moon Swamp, singing on the track "A Hundred and Ten in the Shade". They also...
Fairfield were formed a few years ago in the vicinity of Lund, south of Sweden. The band consist of five musicians who play music because they love to. The energy and joy on stage are Fairfield's trademark.
They have just released their third EP called 'The Cause of Hatred and Love and Everything in Between'. It was recorded at the legendary Tambourine Studios in Malmo, Sweden.
Fairfields music can be described as a guitar and piano driven Scandinavian pop/rock with influences from the 60s.
In the last six months Fairfield have done more than 50 gigs in Sweden and the...
After recording two albums as Kaleidoscope (the British '60s band), Peter Daltrey (vocals, piano, mellotron, harpsichord, organ, tambourine), Eddy Pumer (vocals, classical, acoustic twelve string and electric guitars, mellotron, organ, harpsichord), Dan Bridgman (vocals, drums, pedal tympany, tubular bells, tambourine, bongos) and Steve Clark (bass guitar, flutes) were dropped by their record label, Fontana, due to a lack of chart success. They subsequently changed their name to Fairfield Parlour and signed to Vertigo, releasing the 1970s LP From Home To Home. Along with this name change came also a change in sound; their psychedelic '60s sound from their first two...
You can call him a traditionalist. But we wont. You can call him nostalgic. But we wont.
He is Frank Fairfield. A musician. A Banjo picker. A fiddle hummer. A song singer. We’ve heard him described as someone who was discovered at a farmers market out in California, as if he were some long lost treasure or mythical land. As we see it, it isn’t some deep yearning for a time long forgotten that drives Frank Fairfield, he isn’t trying to be something that no longer exists, because in fact, he DOES exist. The music he plays, creates, performs is...
