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Bellowhead’s Hedonism goes Silver after selling over 60,000 copies!

Bellowhead’s daily song from their bus whilst on tour! Not quite Jon Boden’s Folk Song a Day!

Bellowhead put on a cracking performance at Glastonbury and pleased the crowd no end. Watch them perform New York Girls below.

Our latest guest mix is from Bellowhead whose theme is ‘No-Bread Circuses – a celebration of bands who, in defiance of all common sense, put their ability to make a big fat racket before other more practical considerations such as wage and logistical ease.’

Watch the latest official video for New York Girls from Bellowhead, plus get their summer festival dates as well as those all important Hedonism tour dates for later this year!

Folk Radio UK in association with the Southbank Centre are giving away two pairs of tickets to the The Great Folk Jukebox which will be held at the Royal Festival Hall on Saturday 7th May.

Bristol Folk Festival has taken the wraps off its full artist line up for the Mayday Bank Holiday weekend, revealing a strong programme of top acts from across the UK Folk scene: Show of Hands, Seth Lakeman, Bellowhead, Dervish, Rachel McShane, Bella Hardy, Fay Hield and more!

The following videos are from the Shrewsbury Folk Festival 2010 which featured a host of names I’m sure many of you are familar with including Bellowhead, Dervish and Andy Irvine, Genticorum, Nancy Kerr and James Fagan, Boo Hewerdine and Heidi Talbot to name just a few.

Southbank Centre throws open its big top to present ringmasters Bellowhead and special guests for a New Year’s Eve party to remember.

Music has been used to spread messages; political, romantic, historical, for hundreds, probably thousands of years. It’s an effective medium and the musical traditions we’re so proud of owe their very existence to this fact. The trouble is, of course, that almost any message is open to interpretation. This CD, and the Folk Against Fascism movement it supports, have come about because of the misappropriation of British folk music and …