Biografia
Boldwood is a band forged with a passion: to rescue forgotten dance anthems from dusty manuscripts and put them back to work on the dancefloor!
The exciting new 4 piece's repertoire consists entirely of traditional English and Welsh dance tunes, mainly from the 18th century - a golden age for English music, when "folk" and "classical" worlds cohabited easily, arguably for the last time. Purcell and Handel latched on to the popular dance metres of the day and wrote their own slip-jigs and triple hornpipes for performance at court. Itinerant fiddlers jotted down the tunes they'd learnt in London and took them back to play at village weddings.
Boldwood was born 2003 when accordionist Becky Price was looking for new tunes in the Vaughan Williams Memorial Library in Cecil Sharp House, London. She was drawn to an elegant, locked bookcase containing mysterious leather-bound volumes. Wearing the regulation white gloves, she leafed through the fragile, often handwritten manuscripts and discovered a treasury of lost English dance music. Copying out her favourites she gradually realised what these lost tunes really needed…… a new band!
These wonderful tunes can now be heard, for the first time in 250 years, on Boldwood's debut CD "Feet, Don't Fail Me Now"
Boldwood have played Sidmouth Festival, The Big Green Gathering and Hobgoblin Wadebridge Folk Weekend and will be appearing at Roots 666, Malvern Folk Weekend, Manchester Ceilidh and White Horse Ceilidhs. In 2007 Boldwood played Sidmouth and Wadebridge Festivals and Manchester and White Horse Ceilidhs. For 2008 dates see www.myspace.com/boldwood
Boldwood's unusual line-up of fiddles, accordion and bouzouki is the perfect combination for their folk/classical repertoire, providing a full, lyrical string sound, subtle arrangements, lush harmonies and driving rhythms to move the feet as well as the heart. Boldwood's musicians are classically-trained but also have a wealth of experience in, and a deep understanding of traditional music.
BECKY PRICE (piano accordion) played for morris sides as a teenager, studied classical piano with David Earl, played in Finality Jack for 7 years and has recorded CDs with Blowzabella members Dave Shepherd ("Ashburnham" 2000) and Jon Swayne ("Love and a Bottle" 2005.)
KATE MORAN (fiddle/viola) studied violin at the RNCM in Manchester. She has played in ceilidh bands since she was small and currently divides her time between Boldwood, freelance classical playing and violin teaching.
RICHARD HEACOCK (fiddle/viola/bouzouki) studied composition with Michael Finnissy, composed for the National Theatre, wrote the music for Tony Robinson's "The Worst Jobs in History" (Channel 4) and plays for Ickneild Morris and The Vale Islanders.
DANIEL WOLVERSON (fiddle/viola) plays fiddle in Pach Pi, Infamous Grouse and Finnegan's Wok, and hurdy-gurdy in French dance band Cyser. He has played and run workshops at Sidmouth, Towersey and Folk Beat.
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