Tufty Swift

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Tufty Swift was a pillar of Derbyshire's folk music community, he collected dance tunes & songs from Derbyshire source musicians, and popularised the dance tunes of the Yorkshire Dales; He set up the first folk club in Belper, Derbyshire, and formed the influential country music band Umps and Dumps with John Kirkpatrick. Unusually in English traditional music, he specialised in the one-row melodeon. Tufty Swift died in 1999 after a long battle with cancer. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons ...read more

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