Young Tradition

The Young Tradition were a British folk group of the 1960s....

The Young Tradition was formed on 18 April 1965 by Peter Bellamy (8 September 1944 – 19 September 1991), Royston Wood (born 1935 died 8 April 1990) and Heather Wood (born Arielle Heather Wood, 31 March 1945, Attercliffe, Sheffield, Yorkshire) (who was unrelated to Royston Wood). Most of their repertoire was traditional British folk music, sung without instrumental accompaniment, and was drawn especially from the music of the Copper Family from Sussex, who had a strong oral musical tradition.[...] They recorded three albums and an EP, on the Transatlantic Records label. (Read more at Wikipedia)

Links to Peel
In the late 1960s, folk music on John Peel's shows was usually modern and "contemporary", because at the time traditional folk music was associated with an older generation of folk performers who didn't appeal to the folk fans who listened to Peel's shows or attended the more musically adventurous folk clubs, like London's Les Cousins. There were a few exceptions to this rule, however, and among them were the Young Tradition, who dressed in the dandyish style typical of 1960s Swinging London and mixed with contemporary folk stylists such as Bert Jansch and John Renbourn, for a time sharing a house with the two singer-guitarists and, like them, recording for the Transatlantic label. Peel would have known of them from reading Melody Maker, as their albums often featured in that paper's Folk Top Ten and they received write-ups on its folk page. Eventually they were booked for two Night Ride sessions, but broke up soon after the second one was broadcast in 1969.

After their split, Peel played solo tracks by Peter Bellamy, who also did sessions for his programmes, and Royston Wood appeared on the first Peel session by another folk vocal group he admired, Swan Arcade, in 1973. The Young Tradition were also a major influence on Peel favourites Forest.

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