Bagas Fellyon: Nos Lowen @ Borderlands Festival, Launceston

Name: Bagas Fellyon: Nos Lowen @ Borderlands Festival, Launceston
Start: 2025-09-20T18:00:00+01:00
End: 2025-09-20T19:30:00+01:00
Location: Launceston Town Hall

Schedule

Sat Sep 20 2025 at 06:00 pm to 07:30 pm

UTC+01:00

Location

Launceston Town Hall | Launceston, EN

As part of the Borderlands Festival in Launceston on Saturday the 20th of September, we will be culminating in the Town Hall with two musical acts from Cornwall, the Nos Lowen Band, Bagas Fellyon and high energy celtic folk-punk-rock band Black Friday!

NB You can buy tickets to the individual events, or to both events with a combined ticket, which can both be purchased below. Black Friday individual tickets are available here: https://snappytickets.co.uk/events/black-friday-the-borderlands-festival-a-celebration-of-cornish-folklore-music-arts-and-culture/. There is a discounted price when you buy both tickets together and the Earlybird tickets run until the 26tth of August. Launceston Folk Club members and Boscastle Museum of Witchcraft and Magic patrons will be able to purchase Earlybird tickets up until the event. Tickets bought on the door, will be priced at £18 for children and £35 for adults so remember to book ahead!

‘Bagas Fellyon, meaning ‘Band of Fools’ is one of the most exciting dance bands to come out of Cornwall in recent times – we loved them when we first saw them at Cornwall Folk Festival last year and can’t wait to see everyone up, learning the dances and having a good old shin-dig’ Emma Jaynes
Bagas Fellyon is a collective of musicians brought together by the fiddle player Neil McMahon. Initially as a project to promote the album “Hitching Ships” by Cornish studio-based duo Fools Rock. Following this sell-out gig, the band soon took on a life of its own with its boisterous groove centric approach to Cornish Nos Lowen music.
Hailing from the dark depths of West Cornwall, Bagas Fellyon are re-imagining the sound of Cornish traditional music.
Taking the dark majestic beauty of the rugged Celtic coastline, the softness of golden sands and throwing in the grit of post industrial decay Bagas Fellyon are infusing the traditional music of Cornwall with their own lived experience in order to create something fresh, vibrant and alive.
Using drums, bass, fiddle, accordion and hammered dulcimer, Bagas Fellyon weave hypnotic rhythms and evolving textures in Combination with melodies both ancient and modern to paint a picture of Cornwall and Cornishness that goes deeper than the typical picture postcard representations of the Dutchy.’