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The Post Quiz: Folksingers

An old man singing Danny Boy on the streets of Londonderry

How many of these folksingers did you know, based on their stories in the Edited Guide?

Here are the singers, matched with their facts.

FactSinger
  1. Wrote 'The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face' for his singing gf.
  2. Wrote 'The Marvellous Toy' as a typing exercise.
  3. This blind harper may have written 'Danny Boy'.
  4. Canadian who stood 'In the Early Morning Rain'.
  5. Chased his 'Moonshadow', grew up over a Greek restaurant.
  6. Used a really odd guitar to compose a song about New Orleans history.
  7. Sang Irish drinking songs live at the Albert Hall, but were they sober?
  8. They'd rather be a forest than a street.
  9. A chip off the old block, sang about looking for cigs in the dark.
  10. He claimed, 'This country is too young to die.'
  1. Ewan MacColl.
  2. Tom Paxton.
  3. Rory Dall O'Cahan.
  4. Gordon Lightfoot.
  5. Cat Stevens, aka Yusuf Islam.
  6. Jimmy Driftwood.
  7. The Dubliners.
  8. Simon and Garfunkel.
  9. Loudon Wainwright III.
  10. Phil Ochs.

If you knew them all, you're probably a regular down at the folk club. If not, what are you waiting for? Read the Guide and start listening to The Mike Harding Folk Show!

A group of men with instruments and beards - it must be The Dubliners.
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