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Come for the music and stay for the dulcimer making lesson and truly bad hair cuts.

This is great! thank you for sharing this!

I remember watching the bit where they are making a dulcimer at the time

Ashley would be the perfect version of a Seventies Agent Smith.

Is this an outtake from Harry Enfield?? Love the guy with his pipe and Dennis Waterman leather coat!!!

Fantastic! Saw them live once.

I think this was filmed at John Pearse's flat, I went there once but can't remember exactly where it was. I do know that the walls were covered in stringed instruments, not just in this room but all the way up the stairs leading to the flat. (I think it may have been in Crouch Hill)

Happy looking Bunch

Wow fantastic , love Steeneye span. Thank you Tim.🎶

Classic!

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02:55 Lark In The Morning 10:05 Hunting Of The Wren 18:30 Prince Charlie Stuart 22:30 Bryan O'Lynn (thanks to @keni8363 and @eyeball226 for the name of this jig) Maddy Prior (spoons), Martin Carthy (guitar), Peter Knight (fiddle), Ashley Hutchings (bass), Tim Hart (dulcimer), and great vocals one and all.

What a strange thing this is. The obsession with ‘solid dulcimers’ didn’t make sense until I realised that Steeleye Span were incidental to a whole dulcimer building segment, and if anything that just makes it weirder… I have no idea who financed it, but I’m bloody glad they did.

Lithe long white limbs dark hair, English perfection.

Maddie unbelievably sexy

Musty, damp, haunted and ghostly is the only way I can sum up Steeleye Span. They really are the only traditional folk (rock) outfit I go back to after hearing other performers of this genre. Maddy's voice is so perfectly pitched, clear and stable and complements Steeleye's fantastic arrangements.

Thank you for uploading this gold dust rarity

This to me is an excellent nostalgic snapshot of an England long gone.An unusual and eccentric piece of TV ,that seems to combine the politeness and reserve of the 1940s/50s in the mannerisms of the people, together with the colourful fashions of the period and includes good music that is hundreds of years old.

Incredible!! Thanks for this video!!

Great strings produced under the John Pearse moniker, but regarding tv he had all the charisma of an Open University lecturer.

Their best period.mr carthy was genial.

Thanks for posting! Damn...this is a precious jewel from within the RUclips treasure chest. ❤☮🌎

Apparently this was a very short run series. Only two episodes were made.

This is how i remember 1970. folk music, tv stations and pubs closing early and everyone cheesed off

Maddy Prior has one of the most beautiful voices I have ever heard. And it got even richer and more resonent in later years.

Wonderful! I love peeking back decades to hear a group like this. Martin, who looks about 15, is already well known to the guitar and folk traditional world. I love that everyone plays and sings with their eyes closed. As for weirdness, it isn't weird to me at all.

The host looks like Alan Parsons. Not sure if it is.

WOW! So Scary Tim!

Reminds me of rehearsing in my hall of residence, except good.

Ashley's really crankin' it out on the first number.

What a strange looking bunch!

Wow!❤ This is unbelievable! Thanks for sharing!🥲

drumpf's statements are the epitome of the antithesis of the quintessential qualities of an effective leader.

His TV show must have been the inspiration for jazz club in the fast show 😂. Great clip BTW 👍

Long hair and a pipe! I'd forgotten just how weird the 70s were - this to the Sex Pistols to bloody disco...

Can’t thank you enough for this! ❤

Now i see where the fast show got it's inspiration for jazz club scetch, this is so of it's time, not auto tune, no computer fiddling, just talent, and being able to play properly!

They sing so well together that a music critic once wrote that putting an instrumental number on a Steeleye Span album was like putting an instrumental number on an album by The Mormon Tabernacle Choir🙂

"But you do traditional English folk music and a great number of the people who do sing and appreciate English folk music say that you shouldn't even use a guitar..." Blimey that's pretty fundamentalist and not so much of a philosophical difference with the Taliban in that case. 😧

That was the worst way to lay out fret placement that I have ever seen. Use calipers folks.

Proper musicians

Steeleye Span's best line up, before the fall into mediocrity. Glad there's a video record of this. Thank you for posting.

Maddie Pryor and Martin Carthy harmonizing ... wow ;)

So cute, ho Maddie "checked out" her tambourine, to make sure it was working...☺️

ATV = Associated Television

What a wonderful video. Can the uploader please note that the host's name is John Pearse (1939-2008)?

I often find myself wishing the world was as straightforward as it seemed way back then. I'm still thrilled every time I see a band play this kind of stuff live. Quite strange to hear Martin Carthy speaking in such a 'proper' accent. Who is the guy (dulcimer maker) 'interviewing' them? I get the impression he might be a notable musician of the time. Thanks so much for putting all the work into digitising this.

Most parts of the UK have now diversified from the english language,so many may not understand what they are saying. A lovely time capsule of the past:-)

Them folk hippys indeed.

Did you notice the guy with the glasses in the background playing his laps"The upper side of the thighs of a seated person"? Fantastic.