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News | Bellowhead, Levellers among Cambridge headliners

News | Bellowhead, Levellers among Cambridge headliners

Bellowhead and the Levellers have been announced as two of the headliners for this year’s Cambridge Folk Festival. The pair top the bill on on the two biggest stages on the Friday night of the July event, while the newly-reformed Mavericks and KT Tunstall do the honours on Saturday. The four are among a...

News | Bellowhead announce UK tour

News | Bellowhead announce UK tour

BBC Radio 2 Folk Award winners Bellowhead have announced an extensive UK tour later this year. The 11-piece folk supergroup, who won best album for their release Broadside last month, begin their tour in Bury St Edmonds on November 7, hitting 17 venues in England and Wales. Bellowhead have also released a new video...

News | Och that’s nice! Glasgow hosts R2 Folk Awards

News | Och that’s nice! Glasgow hosts R2 Folk Awards

Lots of FFS’s favourites were honoured in Radio Two’s annual Folk Awards in Glasgow last night. Among the winners were Kathryn Roberts and Sean Lakeman who won Best Duo, Lau were named best group and Roy Harper was given a lifetime achievement award. You can watch the ceremony, which was hosted by Mark Radcliffle and Julie...

Live | Bellowhead @ The Water Rats

Live | Bellowhead @ The Water Rats

When Charles Dickens reported “There was an abundance of lights, and there was music… the whole building looked to me as if it were learning to swim,” he was not describing a Bellowhead gig, rather David Copperfield’s first experience of getting drunk. The appropriateness to the former, however, is not incidental. Bellowhead’s music oozes...

Album | Bellowhead – Broadside

Album | Bellowhead – Broadside

The first thing to say about Bellowhead’s new album is that Broadside is a great title. Referring both to circulating ‘broadside ballads’ of centuries gone by, and to the ‘broadside’ of a ship (that’s the side with the cannons ) – it tells us that Bellowhead are good at being lots of things at...

WIN! | Tickets to Greenbelt festival featuring The Leisure Society and Roddy Woomble

WIN! | Tickets to Greenbelt festival featuring The Leisure Society and  Roddy Woomble

It’s ompetition time, music fans! The nice folk at Greenbelt festival have offered us a pair of tickets to give away to next weekend’s festivities. The line up includes music from The Leisure Society, Roddy Woomble, the Proclaimers, Bellowhead and Rachel Sermanni and there will also be comedy from Robin Ince and Nadia Kamil. Greenbelt...

Interview | FFS talks to Bellowhead’s Pete Flood

Interview | FFS talks to Bellowhead’s Pete Flood

Bellowhead are one of those bands you can’t help but instantly fall in love with. With their traditional folk music and exceptional musicianship they’ve become a treasure to many folk fans. About to set off on tour with other folk artists on a tribute to the late Sandy Denny, FFS managed to catch drummer...

News | Heavyweights team up for Sandy Denny tribute tour

News | Heavyweights team up for Sandy Denny tribute tour

Joan As Policewoman, Thea Gilmore, PP Arnold and Maddy Prior are among the artists confirmed for a tribute show to Sandy Denny that will tour the country in May. The Lady: A Homage to Sandy Denny will be an evening of classic songs from Denny, performed by a huge travelling collection of artists, the...

WIN! Two tickets to the Southbank centre’s Great Folk Jukebox this Saturday

WIN! Two tickets to the Southbank centre’s Great Folk Jukebox this Saturday

This weekend, the Southbank centre is hosting These Lands Are Your Lands – a celebration of traditional music and dance. On Saturday 7th May, members of Bellowhead will become the Southbank Centre’s house band for The Great Folk Jukebox, performing the best folk songs from the past 60 years. There will be collaborations with...

FFS’s pick of the Southbank Centre Festival of Britain

FFS’s pick of the Southbank Centre Festival of Britain

There’s not much lovelier than a stroll along Southbank in the Spring sunshine, so it seems the perfect place for the 4-month long Festival of Britain, starting this month at the Southbank Centre.  The festival will  feature music of all genres, as well as comedy and talks. Below we choose our top ten of...

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