Owen Hand
Biography
Owen Hand (born 28 December 1938 in Edinburgh; died: 16 February 2003) was a British singer-guitarist.
It was during his National Service that Hand picked up a guitar. In the sixties he began mixing with the likes of Archie Fisher, Roy Guest and Bert Jansch, and was getting better all the time as a singing guitarist with a penchant for the blues. He always acknowledged the immense influence of Len Partridge on his music at this time.
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His first solo performance was at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe of 1962. Hand went on to record two fine albums, Something New (1965) and I Love a Lass (1966).
Later in life, in 1993, he proudly graduated with an MA with Honours in Scottish Ethnology with a thesis entitled "The political influences behind the folk song revival in Britain, c 1950s-1960s".
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