Fairport Convention Folk Heroes

In the late 1960s a group of North London musicians shook traditional English folk music to its roots by fusing it with rock simultaneously outraging the purists and delighting a new and devoted audience Through new interviews with the band including Richard Thompson the film examines how the group survived tragedy when their drummer was killed in a car crash early in their career followed by the tragic death of lead vocalist Sandy Denny and how they overcame numerous lineup changes to continually reinvent themselves by discovering and recruiting some of the finest virtuosos in the country