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Dick's 'Live at Wycombe Folk Club' double CD contains 29 songs
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More about Dick
Dick Frost was born in High Wycombe in 1939 and attended Mill End School. He served a four year apprenticeship in upholstery at Bartlett's of Grafton Street, High Wycombe. As a young man, he was an excellent ballroom dancer and regularly danced at the Liberal Club in High Wycombe.
Dick had grown up hearing his grandfather, Dick Buckland, singing "at home, at work and in the pub". He was a founder member of Wycombe Folk Club, which first met at The Coach and Horses in 1965. In the 1970s, Dick sang semi-professionally at local clubs and further afield, including The King's Head in London. He spent time researching songs at Cecil Sharp House and the British Library, and cites his biggest influences as his grandfather Dick Buckland, June Tabor and Shirley Collins.
Dick has always sung unaccompanied, apart from the Brown Ale Troop, which he formed with friends in the 1970s. He has a superb voice and singing style. His feel for music makes him a great singer and much attention is paid to elaborating tunes with variations making each verse subtly different. Today, Dick still supports Wycome Folk Club, which has relocated to T J O'Reilly's in Marlow Bottom, and is now known as Marlow Bottom Acoustic Club. He can be heard there every Wednesday, singing traditional songs in a fine traditional style.
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