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! Their 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 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.

www.boldwood.co.uk