Bellowhead – or around half the acclaimed, award-winning 11-strong folk band – are huddled under a little marquee by the Thames in front of London's Southbank Centre, where they have recently been ...

Ahead of their valedictory tour, the 11-piece folk band tell us about the moments and the music that define their 12-year history After 12 years, five studio albums, and thousands of live dates, ...

11-piece group began as one-off project at the first Oxford Folk Festival and will mark departure with farewell tour in November 2015 and April 2016 They’ve brewed their own beer, recorded versions of ...

Paul Sartin performing live with Bellowhead. Credit: Ross Gilmore/Redferns via Getty Images. Bellowhead violinist and oboeist has died unexpectedly this week, aged 51. The news was confirmed in a ...

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Everything was set for this to be a joyous celebration – folk music giants Bellowhead were reuniting six years after finishing their ‘farewell’ tour. Did you know with a Digital Subscription to The ...

On paper, the concept of Bellowhead shouldn’t really work. There’s nothing wrong with traditional folk music, but to see it pegged as ‘funky’ is a worrying description that conjures strange images.

Bellowhead is like some fantastic musical monster risen from the ocean's depths. Fiddle, accordion, bass clarinet, oboe, bagpipes, banjo, drums, and cello sprout from its vast body, like spiky fins.

We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Life & Arts news every morning. The Royal Opera House might seem a rather incongruous venue for a raucous folk gig, but if any band was ...

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Backstage at The Assembly, a redeveloped 1920s ballroom in Leamington Spa where they’ll later perform, Jon Boden and Pete Flood of Bellowhead lounge in a glitzy cream-and-silver caravan that allegedly ...

The eleven-piece folk big band Bellowhead are an unstoppable collective force, but its individual members have flourishing side careers, compiled here. All the component elements of the compound group ...