A summer concert is to be staged in memory of local folk legend, Pete Farrow. The singer-songwriter, whose career-spanning album "Who Says There's No Beach In Stockport" was released in 2000, was well known throughout the region.
His mates included Salford poet, John Cooper-Clarke, who helped Pete run The Black Lion folk club in the city at the Chapel Street pub.
Pete came to prominence in the 1970s and appeared at the Deeply Vale Festival, set on the moors above Rochdale, which ran from 1976-79, and included sets by The Fall, Steve Hillage, Mick Hucknall's Frantic Elevators, and Durutti Column.
That festival attracted hippies in caravans from all over the country and up to 20,000 people. Pete died on New Year's Eve after many years of ill
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