A night of LGBTQIA+ folk music, art & performance
Join us for a twisted night of queer folk and pagan mischief in Summerisles The Green Man Inn. Expect a full Wicker Man atmosphere — where the songs are strange, the rituals are stranger, and the locals are definitely up to something….corn dollies on every corner, eerie songs, strange rituals, and the creeping sense you may not be leaving the island the same..or at all! Alongside live music you’ll find performance, ghost stories, pagan cocktails, tarot, and plenty of mystic spookiness.
Our very own house band The Bentangle will be performing live, bringing the usual mayhem and folk magic plus Mafisto Has Been will be here to hypnotise you with his live folk performance. Your host for the evening is Dr Martin O’Brien, aka Lord Summerisle… so try not to turn up as a virgin policeman and do not go to the local sweet shop..
Joining us are in the inn are:
Buckner Building
(Naomi Graham, Fritha Jenkins & Keziah Hodgson)
Homemade, unsettling and beautifully strange, Buckner Building will 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. Violin, recorders, vocals and bagpipes intermingle with electronic landscapes constructed from found sounds, loops and fragments of text.
Faerie Mystic
Faerie Mystic is a sound artist and musician working at the intersection of folk-shamanic ritual practices, deep listening and electroacoustic music. Their work draws on animistic traditions rooted in nature and place, reimagined through contemporary sonic expression.
Live performances are built through improvisation and looping, weaving together breath-led instruments (including classical woodwinds and jaw harp), electronic textures, and the sounds of natural environments.
Taking place around the spring equinox and Navruz — a time associated with new beginnings and transitions between natural cycles — the performance explores a moment of balance, where light and darkness exist in equal measure: not in opposition, but held together as complementary states.
The set unfolds as a continuous flow where contrasting elements meet, blend and coexist… connecting with something greater, something beyond.
See you soon…