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Bilk continued to tour with his Paramount Jazz Band, as well as performing concerts with his two contemporaries, [[Chris Barber]] and [[Kenny Ball]], both of whom were born in 1930, as "The 3Bs". Bilk also provided vocals on many of his tracks, including on "I'm an Old Cowhand", "The Folks Who Live on the Hill", "White Cliffs of Dover", "Travellin On" and "That's My Home".
He was appointed [[Order of the British Empire|MBE]] in 2001 and in 2005 he was awarded the [[BBC Jazz Awards]]' "Gold Award". One of his recordings was with the Chris Barber band, sharing the clarinet spot with the band's regular reedsmen, [[John Crocker (jazz musician)|John Crocker]] and Ian Wheeler. Bilk made a CD with [[Wally Fawkes]] for the [[Fellside Recordings|Lake label]] in 2002. He appeared on three albums by [[Van Morrison]]: ''[[Down the Road (Van Morrison album)|Down the Road]]''; ''[[What's Wrong with This Picture? (Van Morrison album)|What's Wrong With This Picture?]]''; and ''[[Born to Sing: No Plan B]]''. In 2012 Bilk said that, after 50 years, he was "fed up" with playing his most famous tune, "Stranger on the Shore".<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-bristol-17003360|title=BBC News - Acker Bilk 'fed up' with Stranger on the Shore|work=BBC News|date=13 February 2012 |access-date=3 November 2014}}</ref>
Bilk died in Bath, Somerset, on 2 November 2014, at the age of 85.<ref name=independent>{{cite news|last=Leigh|first=Spencer|title=Acker Bilk: Clarinettist and bandleader who became best known for his sweetly melancholic 'Stranger on the Shore'|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/news/acker-bilk-clarinettist-and-bandleader-who-became-best-known-for-his-sweetly-melancholic-stranger-on-the-shore-9836623.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220506/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/news/acker-bilk-clarinettist-and-bandleader-who-became-best-known-for-his-sweetly-melancholic-stranger-on-the-shore-9836623.html |archive-date=6 May 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|access-date=4 November 2014|newspaper=[[The Independent]]|date=4 November 2014}}{{cbignore}}</ref> He was survived by his wife and two children.<ref>{{cite news|title=Jazz legend Acker Bilk dies aged 85|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-29874053|access-date=2 November 2014|agency=BBC News|date=2 November 2014}}</ref> Bilk's last recorded interview was for Cornish community station [[Coast FM (West Cornwall)|Penwith Radio (now Coast FM)]] and was broadcast posthumously on Sunday 16 November 2014 at 9:00 pm.<ref>{{cite web|title=Penwith Radio airs final interview with jazz great Acker Bilk|url=http://www.cornishman.co.uk/Penwith-Radio-airs-final-interview-jazz-great/story-24514718-detail/story.html|access-date=28 August 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150923210608/http://www.cornishman.co.uk/Penwith-Radio-airs-final-interview-jazz-great/story-24514718-detail/story.html|archive-date=23 September 2015|url-status=dead|df=dmy-all}}</ref>
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