Artist description Take a selection of traditional English songs and tunes, add combat trousers, a truck-load of attitude, and the magic touch of musical arranger Jon Loomes, and the result is a lager-fuelled blend of fine vocal harmonies and frenzied musicality from the band who put the F.O. in folk!

Music Style English Folk with attitude

Musical Influences Beer, mostly

Similar Artists Men They Couldn't Hang, Pogues, Oysterband, Levellers, Saw Doctors, Great Big Sea, Blowzabella, Late Night Band

Artist History Whorticulture was conceived at the 1997 Cambridge Folk Festival when four young chaps from the East of England started singing together during a drunken soirée around the Community Radio Caravan.The same year at Saffron Walden, the band were spotted busking in the market square, and within the hour Whorticulture were playing their first ever gig! The band have developed something of a following since they appeared on the club and festival circuit - they seem to receive warm welcomes everywhere they go, and were introduced at the 1998 Tamworth Folk Moot as a band whose reputation burst through the doors while they themselves were still on the stairs!

Instruments Electric Mandolin, Fiddle, Guitar, Hurdy-Gurdy, Piano Accordion, Melodeon, Concertina, Tuba, English Bagpipes and assorted whistles.

Albums Demo '99: It's just a demo...

Additional Info Songbooks and T-shirts coming soon!

Location Cambridge, Cambridgeshire - United Kingdom

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