The Gleeman Guild presents: Goblin Band
Family Friendly
Music & Performance
Seasonal
Event Description
An Evening of Period Folk and Medieval Melodies with support from Otto Hashmi
Goblin Band are a four piece young queer English trad/folk band based in London. Playing a wide range of traditional and medieval instruments.
Goblin Band formed from sessions of the same name run out of the HobGoblin Music shop in central London, organised by a collection of young queer folk obsessive friends and shop employees looking to forge their own way into folk music. This gave rise to a band of multi-instrumentalists firmly rooted in the folk music of Britain, interpreted via the socialist tradition concerned with folk’s relationship to the history of the working classes, capitalism, and colonialism.
Through a fusion of harmony singing, fiddle, squeezebox, hurdy gurdy, recorders and more, Goblin Band deliver a charismatic alternative expression of English traditional culture in a way which is at once riotously joyful and deeply sincere.
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