About FiddleBop

FiddleBop plays jazz-folk, from Hot Club Gypsy swing to jigs'n'reels! On violin, Spanish guitar, percussion, and fretless bass. And we sing too, with four voices in harmony. We love what we play, and it shows!

"Fiddlebop played an amazing set of wonderful music that delighted everyone" (Brecon Jazz Club 2024)

"... a wonderful evening of life-affirming music..." (Brecon Jazz Club 2025)

Wales-based FiddleBop's jazz-folk music is sophisticated but isn't stuffy or pretentious. Is danceable and exciting but not rhythmically boring. Has plenty of go-for-it improvised solos but is still tuneful and melodic. All with a dash of — or sometimes a bit more — fun and good humour 😃.

FiddleBop's jazz-folk grew out of our background in playing both Hot Club Gypsy jazz and folk music of various flavours. Just as the Quintette du Hot Club de France, in the 1930s, created amazing music based on traditional Gypsy melodies, their own compositions, current and past pop tunes, and even some J S Bach... so FiddleBop's repertoire is similarly wide-ranging. Alongside Gypsy-tinged jazz drawn from all of the genre's century-long history (that's get-up-and-dance jazz from the 1920s, 1930s chilli-hot swing, and cool post-bop), FiddleBop's sets also prominently feature jazz-influenced renditions of traditional folk songs and designed-for-dancing jigs'n'reels.

So what ties all this together?

Why, our love of all this wonderful music, with its zing, passion, and joie de vivre!

Jazz-folk

"Jazz-folk"? So what is this?

Well, for the long answer then take a look here. Or have a look at the Wikipedia article. But the short answer is that FiddleBop blends Hot Club Gypsy jazz — which was jointly created by Django Reinhardt and Stephane Grappelli in 1930s Paris — and some of the finest (and most danceable) folk melodies to be heard anywhere on the planet. Alongside our own compositions, the result is music for the 2020s and onwards: re-imagined, re-explored, re-invented, brought up to date, and very eclectic. Genre-agnostic, even.

But still with all the pizzazz and excitement — the Gypsy zing, even — of the original.

All of which is why (and please excuse us since we're about to blow our own trumpet and mix our own metaphors), audiences love FiddleBop's unique jazz-folk music.

Music which can be sweet, chilled, even mysterious at times. And music which can also be hot unto cooking.

FiddleBop will get your feet stomping and your heart thumping (in a good way, of course). But don't — as the saying goes — just take our word for it: see our reviews.

So how about having FiddleBop play some "jazz-folk" at your festival? Or in your club or pub? Or at your wedding, or during your party? We're friendly, we don't bite, and we cost less than you might think.

Check us out at or . Or email us or phone us (01982 560726 / 07968 950870) for a quote.

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