Contemporary folk music of the British Isles
Mumford & Sons
Mumford & Sons are one of the most successful bands to emerge in the 21st century and fuse elements of Traditional music from a particular country.聽 and rock.
The British group formed in 2007 with singer/guitarist/drummer Marcus Mumford, vocalist and banjo/dobro player, Winston Marshall, vocalist/keyboardist, Ben Lovett, and vocalist/bassist, Ted Dwane. It was around then that the London folk scene saw the rise of other traditional artists such as Laura Marling and Noah and the Whale.
In 2008, the band played their first Glastonbury Festival and released their debut EP, Love Your Ground. Their album Sigh No More was produced a year later by Markus Dravs. It sold over a million copies across the UK and America earning them Grammy Award nominations for Best New Artist and Best Rock Song.
Mumford & Sons performed with Bob Dylan at the Grammy Awards, which increased their popularity in the USA. Sigh No More won a Brit Award for Best British Album in 2011 and the band鈥檚 2012 follow-up album Babel entered the UK Albums Chart at No. 1 and they received a Grammy Award for Album of the Year. The lead song from the album was I Will Wait. A third album, Wilder Mind, was released in 2015 and debuted at No. 1 in the UK, the USA and Australia.