Little did the band think it would be setting off on its 25th annual spring tour in 2018 but 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 of friends 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 (Lindisfarne) and Garry Blakeley (Band of Two) add the large range of fiddle playing styles to the rock back-line of guitars, keyboards, sax and accordion – all held together by legendary drummer Dave Mattacks.
A live music entertainment like no other on the circuit which is guaranteed to be enjoyed by even the most doubting of friends dragged along!
Mark Radcliffe knows a serious bunch of fiddlers when he sees one, and the Radio 2 bod reckons this lot are “Britain’s fiddling supergroup”
The collective issued its sixth album entitled Sleight of Elbow last year, which marks something of a departure for the band, featuring a lot of original compositions and only a single traditional tune.
One well established feature of the band is well exposed however and that is Feast of Fiddles arrangements of tunes from other genres, film or TV, so your ears will be teased and tickled in equal measure when they wrap up their current road trek at The Stables on Tuesday (April 24).
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