Frankie Armstrong
"...Out of Love, Hope and Suffering" (UK Folk 1974)

Frankie Armstrong (born January 13, 1941 in Workington, Cumbria, England) is a singer and voice teacher. She began singing during the United Kingdom folk revival of the early 1960s, initially with the Ceilidh Singers, a skiffle group. In 1965, Armstrong sang at the Edinburgh Festival "Poets In Public", with John Betjeman, Stevie Smith and Ted Hughes. She first recorded with A.L.'Bert' Lloyd, Ewan MacColl, Peggy Seeger and the Critics Group during the mid-60s. In the mid-1970s Armstrong pioneered workshops based on traditional styles of singing. She worked as a singer in the folk scene and the women's movement, and she was a trainer in social and youth work. Involved with folk and political songs starting in the 1950s, she has also recorded with, amongst others, the Mike Westbrook Band, Henry Cow, Talisker, John Kirkpatrick, Brian Pearson, Leon Rosselson and Maddy Prior.

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