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Sandy formation (11)

When Fotheringhay reformed a few years ago, and did a very short tour, luckily they came to my local venue. Plus the two female vocalists included the wonderful Sally Barker.

Mary tried here where Nigel's weed started on grass (12)

Nigel (Molesworth)'s weed was Fotherington-Thomas

For several hours I thought that I might have an easy choice, as there was only icvotria's entry (first for a while?) Then your collective imagination and ingenuity got going and produced a very inventive set of clues. I could have short-listed all of them; I won't but I will mention:
penda @4, paul @5, FJ @8, mattrom @9, nemo @19 and tyke51 @20

However my choice, for the image it conjures and the immaculate construction, is FJ @6, with

Captured her in Tay fog, transported, then imprisoned here (11)

A couple of you referenced Sandy Denny’s post-Fairport Convention band “Fotheringay” (sic. hence the choice of spelling), but I’ve gone back to the original:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZbnLVvAJrec

Well done FJ - goodclue and good challenge Chrise!
Loved the clip - can you and Stevea recommend any Sandy Denny cds or dvds as I have a gap in my collection? I prefer the accoustic stuff!

Hi tyke
Fairport from "What we did on our holidays" up to "Liege and Lief"; the eponymous Fotheringay (though Fotheringay2 was disappointing) and "The north star grassmen and the ravens"....
I do also have a little known Fairport album where she rejoined (for a atour of Australia) called "Rising for the moon". Not as good as the earlier Fairport, though.

Congratulations, fiery. Thanks, chrise.

Congrats fj. Thanks chrise.

Tyke - I have the 18-track CD "History of Fairport Convention", which came out in 1972 (so recent!). Track 2 is Fotheringay. Covered in autographs, albeit lacking hers.

Well done FJ Thanks for the mench Chrise. I grew up not far from Fotheringay and was always disappointed that the best bit is not the castle ( long gone) but the magnificent church.

Cheers Thea(o)

Excellent clue Fiery!
Cheers Chris, and thanks fir the mention!

Well done, FJ, and thanks to Chrise for the word and the mention. I liked the music.