Messed Up Folk - A night of LGBTQIA+ Folk Music and performance!
Join us for a spooky night of off kilter folk music and weird pagan rituals. There will be a wicker man atmosphere and corn dollies on every table! You can listen to queer folk, classic folk, broken folk and weird folk (and that’s just the clientele!) live music, performance, ghost stories, pagan cocktails, tarot cards and mystic spookiness…
Performing live are Queer Folk’s Sophie Crawford singing traditional LGBTQ+ folks songs, plus the fabulous Pegwells (AKA Bouche Music) playing some spooked up folky tunes and Buckner Building are back with their strange mysterious folk electronica. There’s some pagan poems by the very talented SL Grange and probably a ghost story or two, maybe even a ritual.. a parade of queer corn dollies .. who knows! So bring your best pagan energy and join us!
Sophie Crawford is the co-founder of Queer Folk, which promotes awareness of LGBTQIA+ history in traditional culture. Queer Folk has received support and is undertaking residencies with The Alan Surtees Trust, the EFDSS, Britten Pears Foundation and The Sage Gateshead. She hosts the Queer Folk radio show every month on Voices Radio.
The Pegwells are Bianca Wilson (banjo, spoons, vocals) and Rebekah Bouche (resonator guitar, vocals) they play a mix of black traditional music from across the Atlantic. From Appalachian banjo tunes to early New Orleans jazz and everything folky in between, this duo is all about groove and feeling. They play the old standards but in their own reimagined way, continuing the tradition of reinterpreting and sharing this rich and generous music, with spirits to match!
Buckner Building (Naomi Graham, Fritha Jenkins and Keziah Hodgson) lead your ears to places not always easily located. Their music is homemade and unsettling, shifting between fragments of recognised traditional songs and disruptive contemporary interventions. They are drawn to the macabre, the melancholic, the outsider. Foregrounding a queer identity, Buckner Building takes its audience into a land of shadows, telling tales of difference and gender displacement. Violin, recorders, vocals and bagpipes are mixed up within electronic landscapes constructed from found sounds, loops and fragments of text