Tim Hart

Tim Hart (born January 9, 1948 in St Albans , Hertfordshire, † December 24, 2009 in La Gomera , Canary Islands ) was a British folk singer , guitarist and dulcimer player.

Hart began his musical career with a school band called The Rattfinks. From 1966 he began to appear together with Maddy Prior , with whom he recorded the albums Folk Songs of Olde England, Vol. 1 & 2 in 1968 and '69 . In 1969, the two met Ashley Hutchings , with whom they founded the folk rock band Steeleye Span that same year .

In addition to his work with Steeleye Span, Hart released the album Summer Solstice with Prior in 1971 . In 1975 he toured the United States and Australia with Steeleye Span . In 1979 Hart's solo debut came out, which was simply called Tim Hart . With one exception, the album only contains compositions by himself. In 1982, he finally separated from Steeleye Span.

Also in 1982 Hart was the producer of the album Eligible Batchelors for the rock band The Monochrome Set . The following year, the album Drunken Sailor & Other Kid Songs was released , which contained various British nursery rhymes . In the course of the 1980s, Hart's health began to deteriorate noticeably, after which he retired to La Gomera in 1988 and worked as a nature photographer and published a travel guide in 2004, which was also translated into German two years later.

In 1995 he returned briefly to the UK and took part in a five-hour concert with almost all of Steeleye Span's members. A recording of the concert was released in 1999 under the name The Journey .

In December 2008, Hart was diagnosed with lung cancer. He then returned to England to seek help in a hospital in Reading . On the morning of December 24th, 2009, Tim Hart died at the age of 61 on La Gomera, where he had returned for his final days.

Publications

• La Gomera Handbook, 2006

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://www.gomera-handbuch.com/

Web links

• Tim Hart's photographs