The ensemble Pekel performs exuberant folk music from the Low Lands in its own inimicable contemporary style.

In Pekel’s set of instruments, we find traditional instruments like bagpipes, harp, and flutes, but also “new” instruments like accordeon, keyboards, guitar, and double-bass.
The ensemble's name comes from a liquor that fishermen used to drink.

Pekel was founded in 1990 and now (2008) consists of 4 musicians. The members all are professional musicians since time immemorial, and have recorded many LPs and CDs in various ensembles (notably Perelaar), playing in theatres and schools, and at fairs and banquets. Pekel is not only interested in old Dutch sources, but also in the music recorded by ethnomusicologists during the 1950s and 1960s. However they like to apply modern popular music theories to their essentially traditional repertoire. In recent years they have included more and more own compositions into their repertoire.
A large part of Pekel’s repertoire consists of instrumental dance music (polka’s, waltzes, madlots).

www.pekelfolk.com/