Effective period / Period of releases: 1977

Members: Gregg Butler, Chris Pollington, Malcolm Gibbons

Strawhead is a northern England, Preston-based folk musical group founded in 1974, that specializes in historical British music. Bolstering their national reputation for their accurate and powerful interpretation of the genre of social history of the 16th to 19th centuries, the group's repertoire includes popular songs from the English Civil War era to the Victorian period performed on period and electronic instruments.