Broadside Hacks, the collective at the heart of the new wave of folk music in London, will host a tribute to Peter Bellamy of The Young Tradition to mark what would have been his 80th birthday this Sunday (8 September).
Shovel Dance Collective, Goblin Band and Seb Stone, all outliers within the current generation of innovative left-field folk acts, will be performing live, while Ken Hunt, the esteemed longstanding folk music journalist, will be hosting.
Bellamy was born on 8 September 1944, becoming one of the 1960s English folk revivals most important voices, forming the highly influential The Young Tradition with Royston Wood and Heather Wood in 1965, who specialised in a capella arrangements of traditional English folk songs. The Young Tradition split up in 1969, after which Bellamy pursued a solo career. He died in 1991.
The event will celebrate not only Bellamy’s legacy, but that of The Young Tradition as a whole. Heather Wood, who was the band’s last surviving member, died in July.
Tickets are available here.
