Peter Bellamy
Peter Franklyn Bellamy (8 September 1944 – 24 September 1991) was an English folk singer. He was a founding member of The Young Tradition and also had a long solo career, recording numerous albums and touring folk clubs and concert halls. He is noted for his ballad-opera The Transports, and has been acknowledged as a major influence by performers of later generations including Damien Barber, Oli Steadman, and Jon Boden.
Genre: british-folk, traditional-british-folk
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Top Tracks
- The Gallant Frigate Amphitrite
- The Gallant Frigate Amphitrite
- We Have Fed Our Sea (Live)
- The Streets of Derry
- Conversation with Death
- Rigs of the Time
- Sweet Lemeny
- The Mountain Streams Where the Moorcocks Crow
- Searching for Lambs
- Down by the Green Groves
- The Molecatcher
- Firelock Stile
- Courting Too Slow
- Bungay Roger
- Fanny Blair
- The Greenhopper
- Rag Fair
- Ward the Pirate
- Ramblin' Robin
- The Poacher's Fate
Albums (23)
- Four Seasons in Folk: Winter (2021)
- Sea Songs & Shanties - A Topic Records Miscellany (2021)
- Top 27 Sea Shanties - The Very Best of Peter Bellamy (2021)
- Sailor's Life Sea Shanties Selection (2021)
- Flying Cloud Sea Shanty Favourites (2021)
- Haul Away Sea Shanty Favourites (2021)
- Festive Folk: Traditional Songs and Carols for the Christmas Period (2019)
- David Coffin: Live from the Revels Stage (2019)
- The Maritime Suite: We Have Fed Our Sea for a Thousand Years (Songs of the Sea from the Saxons to the 19th Century) (2018)
- Destination: The End of an Era for a Leading Folk Music Label (Fellside Recordings 1976-2018) (2018)
- Topic Records: The Real Sound of Folk Music (28 Treasured Tracks from the Topic Catalogue) (2017)
- Folk Festival: A Celebration of Music Recorded at the Sidmouth International Festival (2016)
- Round Cape Horn (2016)
- Santy Anna (2016)
- The Journey Continues (2016)
- Songs of the Sea, Vol. 2 (2014)
- Sea Shanties (2013)
- The Ship In Distress Vol 1 (2012)
- The Barrack Room Ballads of Rudyard Kipling (1970)
- Fair Annie & Peter Bellamy (1970)
- Mr Bellamy, Mr Kipling & The Tradition (1970)
- Both Sides Then (1970)
- The Fox Jumps over the Parson's Gate (1970)
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