Vic Gammon is a distinguished music historian, teacher and a composer and player in the traditional folk style – a man who, in a very full musical career, has played with folk aristocracy including Martin Carthy and Judy Collins.
Vic has worked in music education for most of his life. He was a music teacher in Huddersfield before joining the University of Leeds to manage the BA in Popular and World Musics. In 2004, he became Senior Lecturer in Folk and Traditional Music at the International Centre for Music Studies at the University of Newcastle.
Vic’s interest is in the music of ordinary people. He has published research papers and monographs on traditional music and tune books of traditional folk melodies.
Much of Vic’s work is free to access on the Internet Archive (https://archive.org and search for ‘Vic Gammon’ in the Archive, not using the WaybackMachine search tool). He has several CDs to his credit and some tunes are available on SoundCloud, Apple Music and Spotify. You can also find videos of his performances on YouTube and a Google search will generate enough hits to keep you busy for several hours. He now lives in Tynedale and can sometimes be found playing in folk sessions in local venues.
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