Les barker biography
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Les Barker
British poet (–)
Les Barker | |
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Barker at the Ely människor Festival | |
| Born | ()30 January Manchester, England |
| Died | 14 January () (aged&#;75) Oswestry, England |
| Occupation | Poet and performer |
| Genre | Parody |
Les Barker (30 January – 14 January ) was an English poet. He wrote comedic poetry, parodies of popular songs, and also serious works.[1]
Biography
[edit]Barker was born in Manchester, England, on 30 January [2] He studied accountancy before he realised that he had a talent for writing.[2] At the beginning of his career he toured around folk music venues as a solo performer, and later with The Mrs Ackroyd grupp (named after his mongrel dog Mrs Ackroyd.)[2] Barker was not a singer and the Mrs Ackroyd Band, with classically trained vocalists Hilary Spencer and Alison Younger, and keyboard player Chris Harvey,[2] enabled his parodies to be sung live. He toured around Britain and such countries as H
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Les Barker &#; Airs of the Dog
VALE Les Barker
Les Barker, 75, a poet, author and musician of global repute, was found at Park Hall, Oswestry on Sunday morning, January 22, after collapsing the night before.
He will undoubtedly be remembered as a man who made people laugh with his poetry and his friendship.
He performed on a number of occasions at The National and at Humph Hall in
Humph Hall convenor and owner, Wayne Richmond, said “I have the concert on video” and posted it on his weekly FolkMail, a What’s ON newsletter on behalf of the Folk Federation of NSW, as the &#;Video of the Week&#;.
“I also hosted an online session with him called &#;An evening with Les Barker&#;s Breakfast&#; in January, ”, Wayne said.
Jacey Bedford, his agent, said: &#;Though the scruffy, cardigan-wearing idiot was his stage persona, in real life he was a scruffy, cardigan-wearing gentle genius who wrote not only side-splittingly funny poems, but, serious ones, too, bitingly political
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LES BARKER - -
By Tony Kensall and Terry Clarke-CoyneObituaries
Les Barker will be known by most readers as a brilliant comic performer. Many would say a comic genius. But, who was Les Barker?
Les was born 30th Jan in Manchester. He worked as an accountant for the council until he turned full time as a performer on the folk scene. He later moved to the village of Bwlchgwyn, near Wrexham in Wales.
In his earlier years Les was a keen footballer and even got to a level that enabled him to play in the local amateur leagues.
He was a fervent fan of the Welsh football league and often went to support his adopted team of TNS (The New Saints)
It is in his adopted new home that he found a love for the Welsh language and immersed himself into the Welsh society, eventually enjoying the challenge of mastering the language. He once said that “it is great to have a new set of words to play with” and he would spend many hours writing poems and taking part in Welsh quizzes. This led him to