Messed Up Folk

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 from the archive of Cecil Sharpe House, plus the fabulous Pegwells (AKA Bouche Music) playing some spooked up folky tunes! There’s some pagan poems by the very talented SL Grange and probably a ghost story or two, maybe even a ritual with a dirty stag deity.. 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) 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!

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