Monty's Maggot play traditional English music for English Ceilidhs, English Country Dances and Concerts. We also play in decent pubs for fun and beer.

Our cracking-good tunes are played with infectious rhythm, gusto and energy; and if we play a tune that isn't English then it's probably one that should be!

Apart from festivals, we mostly play around Devon, Oxfordshire, and the South and West of England.

Some people ask why we're called Monty's Maggot - Maggot is old English meaning an eccentric or fanciful idea or whim; and the band was an idea hatched during a series of fiddle workshops that Flos and Jerry were running out of the wonderful White Horse in Moretonhampstead. Monty is Jerry's Jack Russell who likes to sing while Jerry practises at home. Monty likes singing in E minor particularly and has taught Jerry's other dog Sasha to sing as well.

Flos Headford - fiddle
Jeremy Tozer - melodeon
Carl Allerfeldt - fiddle
Neil Gledhill - bass saxophone

For BunkFest 2011 their caller will be Aidan Hansell


(Saturday afternoon Family Ceilidh)