Hedonism Live

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Hedonism Live
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Video by Bellowhead
Released 28 November 2011
Recorded O2 Academy Bournemouth in May 2011
Genre Folk
Label Proper Films
Director Ed Cooper

Hedonism Live is the second live DVD by folk band Bellowhead. It was recorded in May 2011 at the O2 Academy Bournemouth. [1]

Folk music musical and poetic creativity of the people

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Bellowhead band

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Contents

Track listing

  1. Yarmouth Town
  2. A-Begging I Will Go
  3. Trip To Bucharest
  4. Amsterdam
  5. Whiskey Is The Life Of Man
  6. Two Magicians
  7. Parson's Farewell
  8. Cold Blows The Wind
  9. Fakenham Fair
  10. Cross-Eyed And Chinless
  11. Broomfield Hill
  12. Unclothed Nocturnal Manuscript Crisis
  13. Captain Wedderburn
  14. The Handweaver And The Factory Maid
  15. Across The Line
  16. Roll Her Down The Bay
  17. Cholera Camp
  18. Haul Away
  19. Little Sally Racket
  20. Sloe Gin
  21. New York Girls
  22. London Town
  23. Frog's Legs And Dragon's Teeth

Personnel

Jon Boden British singer

Jon Boden is a singer, composer and musician, best known as lead singer and main arranger of Bellowhead. His first instrument is the fiddle and he is a leading proponent of "English traditional fiddle style" and also of "fiddle singing", both of which he employed in Bellowhead, in the duo Spiers & Boden, and previously as a member of Eliza Carthy’s Ratcatchers.

Fiddle musical instrument

Fiddling refers to the act of playing the fiddle, and fiddlers are musicians that play it. A fiddle is a bowed string musical instrument, most often a violin. It is a colloquial term for the violin, used by players in all genres including classical music. Although violins and fiddles are essentially synonymous, the style of the music played may determine specific construction differences between fiddles and classical violins. For example, fiddles may optionally be set up with a bridge with a flatter arch to reduce the range of bow-arm motion needed for techniques such as the double shuffle, a form of bariolage involving rapid alternation between pairs of adjacent strings. To produce a "brighter" tone, compared to the deeper tones of gut or synthetic core strings, fiddlers often use steel strings. The fiddle is part of many traditional (folk) styles, which are typically aural traditions—taught 'by ear' rather than via written music.

Tambourine musical instrument in the percussion family

The tambourine is a musical instrument in the percussion family consisting of a frame, often of wood or plastic, with pairs of small metal jingles, called "zills". Classically the term tambourine denotes an instrument with a drumhead, though some variants may not have a head at all. Tambourines are often used with regular percussion sets. They can be mounted, for example on a stand as part of a drum kit, or they can be held in the hands and played by tapping or hitting the instrument.

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References

  1. ↑ "Hedonism Live: Bellowhead". propermusic.com. Retrieved 2011-11-05.
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