Belshazzar’s Feast

The origins of Belshazzar’s Feast lie way back in the mists of time. Or at least, back in 1995. Paul Sartin on voice, fiddle and oboe plus Paul Hutchinson on voice and accordion have a perfect partnership. read more...

You can listen to their music, note perfect and subtly nuanced but it’s not going to tell you the half of what you’ll experience in concert because there are some things that you just can’t bottle. The humour in a look, a groan, a frantic flailing at a keyboard as the pace hots up and the partnership disintegrates into combat of an entirely musical kind.

And still it’s note perfect, until it’s not, and that’s where the superb dexterity of these two amazing musicians really comes into its own. The musical jokes whistle past your ears with lightning speed. Catch them if you can.

Belshazzar’s Feast were nominated as Best Duo in the 2010 BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards, and best Live Act in the Talkawhile’s 2010 Hancock Awards.