ARTISTS

Blackbeard’s Tea Party

Sea-shanties will be given a bombastic rock edge, and folk instrumentals will become late-night floor-fillers when this raucous bunch of reprobates hit the stage at our Saturday night concert. They have dirt under their fingernails and a twinkle in their eyes, and you can expect fantastic musicianship, playful choreography and an unstoppable urge to move your body.Two drummers, electric guitars, fiddle, melodeon and 4-part harmonies combine to create music that is drenched in tradition, but filtered through a kaleidoscope of modern rock and pop. Blackbeard’s Tea Party have played memorable sets at Glastonbury, Cambridge Folk Festival, Fairport’s Cropredy Convention, The Rainforest World Music Festival in Borneo and many more.

Angeline Morrison

Angeline Morrison is a singer, songwriter and multiinstrumentalist in the wyrd folk tradition, who believes in the inherent beauty of sad songs.

Angeline’s homespun sonic aesthetic, deeply emotive writing and layered vocal harmonies are all stitched together to make small, tender, often dark stories in song.

Angeline’s new album “The Sorrow Songs: Folk Songs of Black British Experience” was released during Black History Month and won The Guardian’s Best Folk Album of 2022. It is the result of research into the historic Black population of these islands. It is a work of re-storying, of lives and of experiences, into songs in the folk style.