There are performers who are best known for something which is not representative of their principal work – Don McLean's "American Pie", Lita Roza's "Doggie In The ...

Aka Bilk, the 2004 Moe Cup winner, is again on the trail of the big race and will use today’s (Tuesday’s) Royal Snack Plate as a lead up to the October 13 event. Trainer, Jason Williams, on Monday ...

MR ACKER BILK Acker Bilk, MBE was born Bernard Stanley Bilk on January 28, 1929 in Pensford, Somerset, and was an English clarinettist and vocalist. After Acker left school, he worked in a cigarette ...

'Stranger on the Shore' stayed in the UK chart for one year. Clarinettist Acker Bilk, who personified the trad jazz revival of the 1950s and '60s, has died after a lengthy illness at the age of 85.

Jazz band The Three Bs, aka Acker Bilk, Kenny Ball & Chris Barber, are due to play at the Indig02 on July 23. Helen Backway spoke to renowned clarinetist Acker Bilk ahead of the coming show.

Stranger on the Shore is the haunting song that made Acker Bilk an international star. It was originally a shorter piece called Jenny that was named for his daughter. But when a 1960 children's TV ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Bedecked in bowler hat and waistcoat and brandishing a clarinet, he seemed an unlikely figure to help lay the ...

Acker Bilk has won immortality on rock oldies radio for his surprise 1962 hit "Stranger on the Shore," an evocative ballad featuring his heavily quavering low-register clarinet over a bank of strings.