Aldeburgh Music

Adventures with Tradition

What does it mean to play traditional music in this day and age? Can folk idioms have any relevance to present day life or is such immersion in the past a form of historical re-enactment? And why would forward-looking contemporary musicians choose to revisit a forgotten world of fair maids and rambling sailors?

The award-winning folk big band, Bellowhead, is made up of musicians with backgrounds in jazz, world, contemporary classical and electronica as well as folk music. Since 2004, they have been on a mission to bring the old-time popular music of Britain to a wider audience. Members of Bellowhead will collaborate with Aldeburgh Young Musicians to create new works, contemporary in nature but with their roots in the past.

Aldeburgh Young Musicians receives generous funding from

With additional support from the John Penn Will Trust