Faustus | |
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| Origin | Hampshire, Shropshire, Hertfordshire, UK |
| Genres | English folk music |
| Instruments | Vocals, fiddle, guitar, melodeon, oboe, bouzouki, cor anglais, banjo, mandolin |
| Years active | 1998–present |
| Labels | Fellside Navigator West End Music Westpark Music |
| Members | Benji Kirkpatrick Saul Rose |
| Past members | Paul Sartin (1998 - 2022, his death) Pete Flood (2010) James Fagan (2010) |
| Website | faustusband.com |
Faustus are a folk music duo based in the UK. The all-male membership brings together multi-instrumentalist musicians active across many other leading bands in the UK folk scene: Benji Kirkpatrick (Seth Lakeman Band, Bellowhead, Steeleye Span), Saul Rose (Waterson–Carthy, Whapweasel) and formerly Paul Sartin (Bellowhead, Belshazzar's Feast). They have been described as “bloke-folk” and aiming to “rescue contemporary folk from the curse of feyness” (The Independent).[1] In 2007 they received a 75th anniversary award from the English Folk Dance and Song Society, and they were nominated as best group at the 2009 BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards.