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Bellowhead announce November 2022 Tour to celebrate the 10th Anniversary of Broadside. Supporting on all 18 dates will be Sam Sweeney with his band. We wind back the clock to 2012.

Bellowhead announce the release of their new album ‘Reassembled’, the recording from their online broadcast concert in December 2020. Listen to them performing New York Girls.

Bellowhead are to reunite for a one-off worldwide concert stream on Saturday 5th December in celebration of the 10th Anniversary of Hedonism, the highest-selling independently released folk album of all time.

Bellowhead have had a little stay-at-home reunion. Watch them performing New York Girls from their Hedonism album with plenty of antics along the way.

The 40th-anniversary all-star revival of Peter Bellamy’s ‘The Transports’ starts this month taking it dates at Celtic Connections, Cecil Sharp House and more. Watch this excellent short documentary about the ballad folk opera.

Jon Boden compiles The Ultimate Guide To English Folk, a lavish two-disc primer designed to appeal to experienced folkies and newbies alike. It is not the first such collection, but it is probably the most wide-ranging, lovingly compiled and inventively sequenced. One of the most important messages to take from this compilation is that while folk music in England is something of an extended family, it is by no means …

Peter Bellamy’s 1977 masterpiece Ballad-Opera ‘The Transports’ to be re-told featuring The Young’uns, Faustus, Nancy Kerr and members of Bellowhead together on stage. Plus we have a CD giveaway of the original release.

Jon Boden announces first solo tour which includes Cambridge Folk Festival and Sidmouth Folk Week and, as a bonus, reveals new live track, ‘All Hang Down’, our Song of the Day.

‘Bellowhead Live’ is a sumptuously packaged reminder of what a band they are, Andy Bell manages to capture subtleties and textures of the band live…one to keep coming back to to relive those memories.

Enter our competition for the chance to win a copy of ‘Bellowhead live – The Farewell Tour,’ a copy of ‘Pandemonium – The Essential Bellowhead’ and a copy of the ‘Bellowhead – The Songbook’.

We have five copies of ‘Pandemonium’ to giveaway from that exhilarating juggernaut of bombastic, swaggering, buffed, multi-coloured big band folk that is Bellowhead!

There has never been a force of nature quite like the exhilarating juggernaut of bombastic, swaggering, buffed, multi-coloured big band folk that is Bellowhead and it is unlikely there ever will be again. Pandemonium presents highlights from Bellowhead’s incredible career.

We talk to Keston Cobblers’ Club whose new album ‘Wildfire’ is out now. They head out on tour in July performing at festivals across the UK before supporting Bellowhead on their final farewell tour.

The mighty Bellowhead bandwagon is about to make its final journey. One last rev of the engines and one last climb to the highest peaks and the curtain will finally fall on the astonishing party that has been running for almost 12 years.

Bellowhead continue to go from strength to strength having picked up their 3rd Best Group nomination from the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards. They also embark on a major tour with support from Kings of the South Seas, they have a new single due for ‘Roll Alabama’ for which they also have a new video.

We report back on The Great British Folk Festival feat: Bellowhead, Capercaillie, Bella Hardy, Salt House, Eddi Reader, Melrose Quartet and many more.

At the English Folk Expo this year Jon Boden tackled the future of folk music and how the role of social singing can help it thrive. Find out how Bellowhead have been putting it into practice.

Our Song of the Day is Just The One, a song that first appeared on the Levellers’ No. 1 chart album Zeitgest. This new bombastic version features the one and only Bellowhead!