About us

Fiddlebox met whilst playing for a Welsh folk dancing team in 2002, and have been working together ever since. They had an eponymous album released in 2009, and are currently writing material for the next.

As well as working intensively together, we are both involved in solo musical projects and other collaborations.

George Whitfield has been a professional musician for 20 years and plays a unique piano accordion custom built in Italy. The Beltrami Accordion allows George to produce big keyboard sounds in line with his early rock influences as well as traditional accordion tones. George’s style is bluesy folk with a large dollop of pop-rock and has played on CDs by many artists including Pressgang, Peter Sarstedt, Roy Bailey and the Outcast Band. Unlike many accordion players George is a prolific left hand player using the instrument as much for accompaniment as for lead, with running basslines and funky rhythms. He is also a songwriter and a recent Taplas review of the Fiddlebox album states “Whitfield throws in chirpy pop songs with cleverly contrived lyrics.” Apart from Fiddlebox George also plays regularly with Pressgang, a band that unites traditional lyrics with irresistibly danceable bass and drums. Since moving to Wales in 2000 George has played with various traditional dance and twmpath/ceilidh groups, which has in turn brought a new influence on his already diverse playing.

Helen Adam is a classically trained musician with a life long passion for traditional music, who has never had a proper job! Since moving to Wales in the late 90s, Helen has studied Welsh dance music and song and learned the language. She is a composer as well as performer with three full-length works to her name, (Gwyl Nos, 2007, Merch y Felin 2008, and Totem 2009) as well as numerous smaller scale pieces. She takes part in many community projects as a performer, workshop leader and composer. As an associate member of Community Arts Organisation 'Space to Create', she was involved recently in a Pembrokeshire based project, Imageinate, working with young people outside the education system to create the sound track to a DVD exploring issues in the lives and their feelings about their community, and runs workshops in the National Waterfront Museum in Swansea in Welsh song for children (Canu gyda Ni) and Sea Sounds and Songs. She is a member of the folk orchestra of Wales, ‘Clerorfa’.