Messed Up Folk - A night of LGBTQIA+ Folk Music, art and performance
Join us for another spooky night of off kilter folk music and weird pagan rituals in The Green Man Inn, there will be a wicker man atmosphere and corn dollies all over.. 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 ‘Broken folk’ duo Lunatraktors, choreographer and percussionist Carli Jefferson (she/her), and vocalist and researcher Clair Le Couteur (they/them). Reimagining British folk through a shared love of drum’n’bass, triphop, art rock and post-punk, Lunatraktors attract passionate fans at festivals, galleries, museums, theatres and queer cabarets. Le Couteur’s self-taught overtones and 3+ octave range combine with Jefferson’s hybrid of tap dance, flamenco and tonal percussion, developed after touring with STOMP (2001-2004). The pair turned heads when their percussion-and-vocals debut This Is Broken Folk made MOJO’s Top Ten Folk Albums of 2019, and again when second studio album The Missing Star reached MOJO’s #2 in 2021. Lunatraktors are unsigned and DIY. They received the British Music Collection LGBTQ+ Composer Award 2021 & George Butterworth Award 2022, and EFDSS Alan James Bursary 2022.
The Charmers are a (possibly fictional) band, formed by seven accused ’witches’ from Ayrshire. These queer, runaway, time-travelling-players were discovered on a 17th century scroll by an artist researching the Scottish witch trials. Now they’ve made a 4-track EP ‘Not to be Found’ and are out out on tour and coming to Triangle!‘The Charmers’ draws on research over a three year period by artist Anne Robinson into the Scottish ‘witch’ trials of the 17th century: known to be amongst the most brutal in the world. During her archival investigations, she found scrolls recording seven accused ‘witches’ in Ayrshire, near her home town of Ayr, as ‘not to be found’ - apparently fugitives. From these fragments, using ‘critical fabulation’ and experimenting with art practice - writing, songs, film, and collaborating performers, the work developed around the idea of a ‘sci-fi folk ballad’. In this story, the accused ‘witches’ abscond using the very conjuring they are accused of: transported away out of their cells to form a band, on tour with their familiars to historical moments of transformative rebellion - levellers’ meetings, molly houses, cabaret, disco protests…
Of course our very own performers Medusa has Been and Keziah will be singing their fave folk songs with the house band EM Parry, SL Grange, Hatty Uwanogho and The green man Inns landlady! expect the usual mayhem and magic and a variety of band names!
Your host is Dr Martin O' Brien aka Lord Summerisle so be careful not to turn up as a virgin policeman!
See you folk kids soon!
The Charmers is a visual art project supported by funds from Arts Council England