Live at Shepherds Bush Empire (Bellowhead DVD)

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Live at Shepherds Bush Empire
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Video by Bellowhead
Released 2009
Recorded Shepherds Bush Empire, London, 26 September 2007
Genre Folk
Length1:34:51
Label Westpark Music
Director Ed Cooper
Producer Ed Cooper

Live at Shepherds Bush Empire is a live DVD by folk band Bellowhead, recorded in 2007 on the Burlesque tour and released in 2009.

Folk music Music of the people

Folk music includes traditional folk music and the genre that evolved from it during the 20th-century folk revival. Some types of folk music may be called world music. Traditional folk music has been defined in several ways: as music transmitted orally, music with unknown composers, or music performed by custom over a long period of time. It has been contrasted with commercial and classical styles. The term originated in the 19th century, but folk music extends beyond that.

Bellowhead band

Bellowhead was an English contemporary folk band, active from 2004 to 2016. The eleven-piece act played traditional dance tunes, folk songs and shanties, with arrangements drawing inspiration from a wide diversity of musical styles and influences. The band included percussion and a four-piece brass section. Bellowhead's bandmembers played more than 20 instruments between them; whilst all performers provided vocals.

<i>Burlesque</i> (Bellowhead album) 2006 studio album by Bellowhead

Burlesque is the first full-length album by Bellowhead.

The DVD features Bellowhead's tour diary as well as Bellowhead talking about themselves and the formation of the band.

Track listing

  1. "Prickle-Eye Bush"
  2. "Jack Robinson"
  3. "Outlandish Knight"
  4. "Across the Line"
  5. "London Town"
  6. "Haul Away"
  7. "Spectre Review"
  8. "Rigs of the Time"
  9. "If You Will Not Have Me, You May Let Me Go"
  10. "Death and the Lady"
  11. "Hopkinson's Favourite"
  12. "Flash Company"
  13. "The Rochdale Coconut Dance"
  14. "Fire Marengo"
  15. "Sloe Gin"
  16. "Jordan"
  17. "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

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. Fiddling refers to the act of playing the fiddle, and fiddlers are musicians that play it.

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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