Steeleye

Versions of the Rhymer ballad are sung to this day – Steeleye Span and Euan McColl both recorded it – and Thomas has featured in many literary works as well as an unfinished opera by Ralph Vaughan Williams.

In the wake of his departure from Steeleye Span, fiddle player Peter Knight has turned his full attention to his trio Gigspanner, and in the process has established their reputation as a groundbreaking force on the British folk scene.