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2024 Obit: Paddy Butcher - Suffolk |
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Subject: Obit: Paddy Butcher From: Waddon Pete Date: 13 Feb 24 - 10:30 AM I'm sorry to report that Paddy Butcher mainstay of the folk scene in Suffolk (England) and beyond has sadly passed away. Paddy was a long time resident in West Suffolk and was involved in folk music for many, many years. He was a skillful guitar player, singer and hurdy gurdy player and sang solo as well as with the folk group BOF. He was patron of the Milkmaid Folk Club in Bury St. Edmunds and used to play in this country as well as France where he was able to share his love of French traditional music. What stands out was his excellent delivery of songs. Examples that stick in my mind are, "Old Brown's Daughter" and "From Galway to Graceland." Anyone else doing these songs never sounded quite the same. My most enduring memory concerns his hurdy gurdy playing. One night at The Greyhound Public House song circle, when it was his turn to contribute, he started playing the hurdy gurdy. There was a darts match in the other bar and during his piece more and more heads popped around the corner of the door and listened in silence. When he had finished he got a rousing round of applause and the heads all disappeared again! RIP Paddy. An officer and a gentleman as my old Dad would say. |
Subject: RE: 2024 Obit: Paddy Butcher - Suffolk From: RTim Date: 13 Feb 24 - 11:10 AM Sad news ...I met Paddy many years ago now...when doing an Adderbury Morris workshop for his team. It was a great time and Paddy and his wife were great hosts...and I am sure he will be very much missed by all his friends and family... RIP Paddy.. Tim Radford |
Subject: RE: 2024 Obit: Paddy Butcher - Suffolk From: The Sandman Date: 14 Feb 24 - 03:53 AM Very Sad. I played with Paddy in a Ceiidh band The Suffolk Bell and Horseshoe Band for years,he was a good friend and he also played Melodeon on my lp" Dunmow Flitch", we played in Belgium and Holland with jez lowe and had lots of fun He used to run the Bury folk club at the St Edmunds head alternately with Colin Snell, and as i understand it got the nickname Paddy, because in those days[1978] he sang mainly irish material. I first met him at Bury folk club Playing with Geoff Singleton. I remember him also as musician for Hageneth Morris and i think Bury Fair, I will miss him,a friendly gentle man and always a pleasure to hear him performing his love of music shone though his singing and playing he latterly brought out a cd which contained some gems such as Robin Hood and the Fifteen Foresters I can still hear him singing Thirty Foot Trailer Bogies Bonny Belle and Willy of the Winesbury, Condolences to Jan lindsey Michelle and Lucy. |
Subject: RE: 2024 Obit: Paddy Butcher - Suffolk From: Stilly River Sage Date: 21 Feb 24 - 10:58 AM Is there a link to an obituary? |
Subject: RE: 2024 Obit: Paddy Butcher - Suffolk From: GUEST Date: 24 Feb 24 - 05:48 PM There's an obituary in Mardles (a web site that used to be an East Anglian printed folk magazine.) |
Subject: RE: 2024 Obit: Paddy Butcher - Suffolk From: Stilly River Sage Date: 24 Feb 24 - 05:56 PM From that site: Paddy Butcher - from Skiffle to Bof! |
Subject: RE: 2024 Obit: Paddy Butcher - Suffolk From: GUEST,Dick Miles away from his Computer Date: 25 Feb 24 - 02:40 PM Paddy was very supportive and encouraging to other musicians,I honestly cannot remember him criticising another musician,I remember him as being a positive person I played with him and his partner Jan, and also Sue Weir and John and Katie in The Suffolk Bell and Horseshoe Band, and knew him well, he was somebody who involved himself in the local Folk community, for many years he could have been described as one of the back bones of the Suffolk Folkscene, he will be missed by many. |
Subject: RE: 2024 Obit: Paddy Butcher - Suffolk From: The Sandman Date: 10 Mar 24 - 06:11 AM April 20 Elmswell Suffolk, memnorial day Music at the village hall |
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