Ian Campbell (folk musician)

Ian Campbell (10 June 1933 – 24 November 2012) was a Scottish folk singer.

[1] Born in Aberdeen, Campbell moved to Birmingham as a teenager, where he subsequently worked as an engraver in the city's Jewellery Quarter.

[2] His father, David Gunn Campbell, was a trade union leader who was originally from Shetland.

[1] In 1957, he formed a skiffle group, initially called the Clarion Skiffle Group, which performed politically charged material including Fenian and Jacobite songs, and songs of miners, industrial workers and farmworkers.

[4] After disbanding the group in 1978, Campbell worked as an editor and television presenter for TV-am and as a community arts worker in Dudley.