Name: Grand Union Folk Club w/ The Greater London Banjo Trio x Sullow + support tbc
Start: 2025-09-25T19:30:00+01:00
Location: Centrala

$Grand Union Folk Club w\/ The Greater London Banjo Trio x Sullow + support tbc$

Tickets: https://buytickets.at/theacidmorris/1838214
(No-one turned away due to lack of funds: if you need a free ticket just email us at [email protected] - no questions asked!)
Midland Metro Alliance presents:
Grand Union Folk Club
folk music for listening and for dancing, featuring:
live: The Greater London Banjo Trio x Sullow
During the early years of the 20th century there were up to 100 banjo manufacturers in Britain – most of them in London - ranging from individual craftsmen to factories employing scores of workers. By the 1990s only the devotees of the B.M.G. Federation, the 'Banjo Times' and ‘Banjo Broadsheet’, and Reading Banjo Festival kept the dying flame flickering. The old London Banjo Club, by now renamed the Westminster Banjo Circle, was also in extremis. In January 1992 the Banjo Circle began publishing their journal and decided that the way forward was to present the banjo to the public at every opportunity. To this end they commended holding regional banjo rallies. Thirty years later, The Greater London Banjo Trio was formed.
Sullow are an improvising trio of intersecting Venn membership with the Banjo Trio: Jacken Elswyth, Daniel S. Evans and Joshua Barfoot of Shovel Dance Collective. Inflected and informed by traditional music, they negotiate an improvisation that has been variably described as ‘farmyard’ and ‘rodeo’. Repeated patterns rise and fall in quick attacks, short decays and dense bursts of momentary composition.

support + DJ tbc

Centrala - Thursday 25th September - 19:30
Tickets: https://buytickets.at/theacidmorris/1838214
(No-one turned away due to lack of funds: if you need a free ticket just email us at [email protected] - no questions asked!)
Tickets: https://buytickets.at/theacidmorris/1838214