Among the Sixties generation of stars to have recently played this part of the country, Roger McGuinn is the most intact.

Unlike, for example, his friend Bob Dylan (a number of whose songs graced this stunning solo performance), McGuinn's voice is startlingly unaltered.

His sweet, high tenor melded with the orchestral chime of his 12-string Rickenbacker and acoustic guitars as he took the audience on a trip through his considerable body of work - including that of The Byrds, his solo work and his beloved folk classics.

McGuinn interlaced each song with show-and-tell explanations which were as interesting and informative as they were charming and humble.

He illustrated the story behind the tender Ballad Of Easy Rider by describing how Peter Fonda had visited Dylan in New York and explained the premise behind a new "motorcycle movie".

Dylan wrote a few lines (the song's chorus) on a napkin and told Fonda: "Take this to McGuinn, he'll know what to do with it."

He did.

Looking fit and well, all in black, McGuinn repeatedly reached out to a rather reserved audience, urging them to sing along to songs which The Byrds had turned into classics, such as Pete Seeger's Turn! Turn! Turn!, Gene Clark's I'll Feel A Whole Lot Better and Dylan's Mr Tambourine Man.

Particularly memorable was a rousing performance of Dylan's You Ain't Going Nowhere, Goffin King's Wasn't Born To Follow and a stunning acoustic rendition of McGuinn's own psychedelic anthem Eight Miles High.

This included musical references to Ravi Shankhar, John Coltrane and Andrs Segovia "for the hell of it".

McGuinn's latest recorded release is the Grammy Award-nominated Treasures From The Folk Den, a CD of folk classics recorded with such seminal figures as Seeger and Tommy Makem.

McGuinn's intention with this project, which he began on his web site mcguinn.com in 1995, is to keep the old songs alive.

A fine selection of these were included, highlights being Richard Brown's James Alley Blues from The Harry Smith Anthology, McGuinn's own May The Road Rise To Meet You, based on an Irish blessing, and the uproarious comic relief of Finnegan's Wake.

Included in the folk section was a glorious rendition of Chestnut Mare - the only love song about a horse in pop until The Divine Comedy's My Lovely Horse for Father Ted.

This was a brilliant concert from a true original who is keeping music alive and passing it on.