Pentangle.....concertina !

[Robin Harrison]

I was somewhat astonished to learn that Bert Jansch played an English concertina.

I was a huge fan of theirs and saw them live twice in the early 70's. I had not discovered concertina then: I was a late teenager.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysFKjWG_W54

 

https://mainlynorfolk.info/folk/records/pentangle.html#cruelsister

 

Anyone else out there who was a fan and didn't know he played ?

 

Robin

[Stig Bubblecard]

I also saw Pentangle at Newcastle City Hall on more than one occasion and once in the (then) University Theatre in the Haymarket as a solo performer.

 

Not once did I spot a concertina!

 

Dave

[Hereward]

I've certainly never heard a better version of Lord Franklin.

[LateToTheGame]

I heard that song sung by them for so many years before I was aware what a concertina was. I thought the backing was some sort of organ of some kind. It is unmistakable now...

[Jim Besser]

 

 

Anyone else out there who was a fan and didn't know he played ?

 

 

Me.

 

I was one of countless young people who slavishly learned his version of Angie on guitar.