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2026 Diary Dates:
Jan 04th Garry & Bear Rye Waterworks
Jan 25th Garry & Bear Burns Night Jenny Miller
Feb 13th Garry & Bear Dolphin 7.30pm - 9.30pm
Feb 22nd FOF Rehearsal
Feb 23rd FOF Bexhill Academy Bexhill 07970 010002
Feb 24th FOF Apex Bury St. Edmund's 01284 758000
Feb 25th FOF Palace Theatre Redditch 01527 65203
Feb 26th FOF Twekesbury Roses Theatre 01684 295074
Feb 27th FOF The Pallant Havant 01243 379501
Feb 28th FOF The Beehive Honiton 01404 384050
Mar 2nd FOF Village Club Nettlebed 01628 636620
Mar 3rd FOF The Stables Milton Keynes 01908 280800
Mar 4th FOF Huntington Hall Worcester 01905 611427
Mar 5th FOF Alnwick Playhouse Alnwick 01665 660550
Mar 6th FOF The Lowther Pavilion Lytham St. Annes 01253 794221
Mar 7th FOF Town Hall Masham 01765 680200
Mar 17th Garry & Bear Milligan's Bar Bexhill 5.00pm - 7.00pm
Mar 17th Garry Blakeley Band Albion 8.30pm - 11.00pm
Mar 22nd Llama Legs Royal Oak Pett 4.30pm - 6.30pm
Mar 27th Llama Legs Eight Bells Hawkhurst 7.30pm - 9.30pm
Apr 24th Garry & Bear Dolphin 7.30pm - 9.30pm
May 8th Tivoli Theatre, Wimborne Feast of Fiddles
May 9th St Georges Arts Centre, Beckenham Feast of Fiddles
May 10th Folk on the Pier Festival, Cromer Feast of Fiddles
Sept 5th private booking
Sept 11th Garry & Bear Dolphin 7.30pm - 9.30pm
Sept 13th Llama Legs Royal Oak Pett 4.30pm - 6.30pm
Oct 11th Llama Legs Filo time TBA
Dec 11th Garry & Bear Dolphin 7.30pm - 9.30pm
FOF TOUR DATES FOR 2027: May 4th - May 18th
THE WHEEL OF THE YEAR
The Wheel of the Year is a truly fabulous and unique celebration of the annual cycle. It takes you on a passionate and exciting journey through the passages of history, whilst inviting you to experience the many magical festivals and traditions of the passing seasons.
The superb lyrics of Rose Blakeley are highly descriptive and are brought to life by the powerful and atmospheric music of Garry Blakeley (Feast of Fiddles). His stunning compositions are a beautiful combination of folk rock arrangements, slow airs and driving traditional tunes, which weave in and out of the rich, evocative narration of selected poetry and stories by Jane Downes (The Catsfield Steamers).
The Wheel of the Year also features some of the highlights of The Ceremony of May our successful and well-loved tribute to May Day and the famous Jack-in-the-Green.
This is an incredible production, which will totally enthral you and steal you away to a place of enchantment and imagination!
COME AND EXPERIENCE THE FEAST OF FIDDLES SHOW - you will not regret it !
Feast of Fiddles is a musical entertainment like no other – six of the UK’s finest fiddle players in a band of 11 which includes Dave Mattacks – the grandfather of folk rock drumming. Peter Knight of Steeleye Span, Chris Leslie of Fairport Convention, Brian McNeill, Ian Cutler, Tom Leary and Garry Blakeley bring their own individual styles together to visit many musical genres in a show that has a wide dynamic range and will have you dancing in the aisles and perhaps even shedding a tear. The 2013 tour is the band’s 20th annual outing and the critical acclaim gets louder every year. Bring even your sceptical friends, they won’t be disappointed.
“Absolutely awesome!” – Sue Marchant, BBC East
“Feast of Fiddles is far more than half-a-dozen of
Britain’s most talented exponents of the instrument.
It’s a joyous two hours of excellence and
exuberance.” Get Rhythm
“Your imaginative programme was riveting from start to finish. I relished the brilliance of tone colours in all sections; the violins soaring away, like the spring in the bow of an arrow, on an effortless flight path in perfect unison – like the first violins of a very great symphony orchestra – yet better, because of your innate musicianship, conductor-less craft, rhythm and palpable love of the many genres of music making you had to offer. You are seriously all great musicians.”
David Fanshawe – African Sanctus