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Manchester Folk Festival 2022 – The Longest Johns plus support from Angeline Morrison and Ceitidh Mac

Saturday 15th October, 7.15pm

£19.80 inc booking fee

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Date:
Saturday 15th October, 7.15pm
Time:
7:15 pm
Cost:
£19.80 inc booking fee
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Part of Manchester Folk Festival 2022.

The Longest Johns, the trailblazing band at the forefront of last year’s transatlantic resurgence of sea shanties – being the instigators of the TikTok phenomenon and chart hit, Wellerman –  head to Manchester Folk Festival this October to perform songs from their latest album ‘Smoke & Oakum’.

Featuring the legendary folk songs that fuel the band’s passion for the genre, alongside thrilling original offerings, Smoke & Oakum is a treasure chest, each song a jewel collected along the way. Representing and paying homage to protest singers and folk luminaries through the years, The Longest Johns shine new light through old windows with songs that hold a torch up to the truth.

Over the past decade the four friends from Bristol, have gone from singing sea shanties and folk songs in pubs to raising the roof to a jam-packed tent of adoring fans at Latitude 2021, appearing on the prestigious BBC Sounds Stage, and garnering 250 million combined streams.

The world-renowned musicians’ innovative approach to communicating with the public, and ever-increasing popularity, reaches far beyond the stage. They have shaken up the music world by utilising their entrepreneurial skills, sharing these traditional songs in a completely new way – via gaming and social media platforms – and cementing their position as protest singers of the 21st century. The world is, quite literally, their oyster.

Support for this show comes from Angeline Morrison and Ceitidh Mac

Angeline Morrison:
Angeline Morrison is a singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist music 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. You may have heard Angeline as half of alt-folk duo We Are Muffy (with Nick Duffy), or psych-folk duo Rowan : Morrison (with The Rowan Amber Mill).
Earlier this year Angeline released her latest album “The Sorrow Songs: Folk Songs of Black British Experience”. The UK’s historic Black presence is evidenced but not well known, and difficult to find in the UK’s existing body of folk songs. This album 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. The Sorrow Songs seeks to tell these hidden histories in the form of folk songs, and in some small way to add to the voices represented in our folk songs.

‘Dark, unsettling folk that verges on the hymnal.’ (BBC Introducing)

Ceitidh Mac:
Ceitidh Mac blends the warming tones of the cello and soaring vocals to create a transformative sound that puts a progressive twist on the alt.folk genre.

Originally from Wales, but now based in Newcastle, Ceitidh’s honest and intriguing lyrics have been mesmerising audiences in the know across the UK. While the folk influence is prominent in her songs, the smoky style and lo-fi studio sound combines with a contemporary electronic edge, embellished by unusual instrumentation.

Venue

HOME
2 Tony Wilson Place
Manchester, M15 4FN
Venue phone:
0161 200 1500
Venue website:
https://homemcr.org/
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