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Jon Boden's big singalong

5014 days ago
Guardian MusicFolk singer Jon Boden plans to record a song a day for a year and post it online. But his real aim is to get us all to sing out loud together – in tune or notA few weeks ago Jon Boden, the current BBC Folk Singer of the Year, went to a friend's hom... more info

Events picks of the week

5103 days ago
Guardian MusicFolk Against Fascism, EnglandFounded to counter the BNP's attempts to appropriate English folk music, Folk Against Fascism now ups its profile with events for both folk purists and the folk-curious. London's Southbank has the Oyster Band and Bellowhe... more info

Alexis Petridis on folk and the BNP

5133 days ago
Guardian MusicThe day I told BNP Ian to get lostLast week I got involved in a brief internet spat with someone who tweeted under the winning name of BNP Ian. He was claiming to be a promoter on the dubstep scene, a product of precisely the kind of multiculturalism... more info

Bellowhead with Lemin Sissay: 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner'

5167 days ago
Time Out, LondonNew telling of the Samuel Taylor Coleridge classic poem by Bellowhead, the ever excellent and exhilarating folk big band more info

Ian King: Panic Grass and Fever Few | CD review

5195 days ago
Guardian Music(Fledg'ling)The best traditional songs have survived because the melodies (and the stories) are so strong that they can be successfully treated in a manner of ways, from the folk-rock experiments of the 1960s to the electronica of The Imagined Villag... more info

Lau ‘Arc Light’ | Album 30th March 2009

5520 days ago
AltsoundsTwice winners of BEST GROUP at the Radio 2 Folk Awards (2008/2009), Lau are back with their highly anticipated second album, ‘Arc Light’, released March 30th 09 on Navigator Records (still a young label but firmly establishing it... more info

Bellowhead - Cardiff, St David's Hall

5561 days ago
The Music FixGig Review: Cholera and Cossacks were the order of the day when Steven Burnett caught up with Bellowhead in Cardiff. more info

Coming Soon: The big band of folk bellow it out

5585 days ago
The Independent Folk seems far too quiet, cosy and small a word to comprehensively sum up the eclectic and exuberant big band sound made by the English group, Bellowhead. more info

The curious case of BNP leader Nick Griffin and the folk gig

5627 days ago
The Telegraph BlogI met a personal hero the other day - Jon Boden, fiddle player and singer with Bellowhead - in the basement of Cecil Sharpe House, home to the English folk music society. It was during a jamming session that also involved several other of English ... more info

Folk review, Bellowhead, Koko, London

5646 days ago
Guardian MusicKoko, London: They have always sounded better live than on record, and have now achieved a fine balance between Boden's deadpan, theatrical vocals and a dash of Kurt Weill more info

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