The Full English

The London Folk And Roots Festival Presents 'The Full English'

The Full English
Bbc Radio 2 Folk Awards 2014 Winners Of Best Group And Album Of The Year.

New Single, UK festival dates announced.

On Monday 31st March 2014, The Full English release a new single from their acclaimed album of the same name, two traditional songs ' Arthur O'Bradley' and 'Man in the Moon' – featuring Fay Hield, with traditional singer and fiddle player, Nancy Kerr, boundary-crossing, award-winning singer,songwriter, Seth Lakeman, internationally renowned guitarist, Martin Simpson, double bassist of choice, Ben Nicolls and two of the most dazzling, in-demand multi-instrumentalists playing today, Rob Harbron and Sam Sweeney.

This summer, The Full English will appear at Hop Farm Festival (4th July), Cambridge Folk Festival (2nd August) and Shrewsbury Festival (25th August) and will then undertake a short UK tour in the Autumn of 2014.
Last year, folk singer and scholar, Fay Hield was invited to assemble this group of stella musicians in order to record The Full English album, with material based on a new digital archive of folk music and related materials. The album was released by Topic Records (7th October 2013) and was followed by a sell-out UK tour. In February 2014, The Full English won a stunning double at the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards; Best Group and Album of the Year, with Fay Hield also gaining a nomination for Folk Singer of the Year.

'The great folk collectors honoured in The Full English would be singing rather than spinning in their graves at this fine album.'- The Telegraph

The Full English performed 'Arthur O'Bradley' live at the Royal Albert Hall at the awards ceremony. It's a lively ballad collected by Harry Albiono which Fay Hield describes as being 'just on the right side of tastless'. The words of this song have their origins in the 1600s. 'Man in the Moon' is another colourful song and typical of the early Music Hall era, though again, probably with much earlier origins.