2025 and Feast of Fiddles set out on their Spring Tour once again – their 30th !
Two storming performances at the New Forest Folk Festival and Fairport’s Cropredy Convention in 2024 promoted what has become their 8th recording and another live offering at that.
Born in Nettlebed on Valentine’s Day 1994 as a one-off special concert, Feast of Fiddles is a band of friends that puts on a show of huge dynamic range performed with passion, joy and a liberal dose of fun. This year fiddlers Garry Blakeley (Band of Two), Ian Cutler (Bully Wee), Marion Fleetwood (Trad Arr, Sandy...
What started as an idea in a folk club has become a national folk-rock institution.
Feast of Fiddles has been variously likened to a “group of geography teachers” or “Bellowhead with bus passes!” but doesn’t seem to be slowing down any. A band that puts on a show of huge dynamic range performed with passion, joy and a liberal dose of fun.
Typically, fiddlers Peter Knight (Gigspanner, Steeleye Span), Chris Leslie (Fairport Convention), Brian McNeill (Battlefield Band), Ian Cutler (Bully Wee), Tom Leary (Joe Brown Band) and Garry Blakeley (Band of Two) add the large range of...
Prepare for a magical evening of glorious strings, as fabulous fiddle duo “Nick Wyke & Becki Driscoll” play the Ley Arms Folk and Acoustic Music Club on Friday October 16th. Their music is described as “a joyful collision of English traditional music and contemporary bowed strings” and, joined by James Budden on Double-bass, these amazing fiddle players and singers will take you on a journey from the darker side of folk ballad to toe-tapping tunes and songs. Nick & Becki are highly respected players and composers firmly rooted in North Devon and the West Country. They blend melodic...
