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Join folk singer and researcher Jennifer Reid for an afternoon of Lancashire Dialect work songs and poetry, followed by a Q&A session.Performance starts promptly at 2.30pm, tickets include access to Rochdale Pioneers Museum which tells the history of Britain's co-operative movement.
Jennifer Reid performs Industrial Revolution work songs in the Lancashire dialect and Manchester street songs. Sixteen years in, she moves between worlds with ease. She was once described as having “irreverent puckish vim” in a mag. She plays Barb in Shane Meadows’ The Gallows Pole, has opened for Pulp and John Cooper Clarke and performed for Chanel’s Metiers d’Art. She’s toured with Eliza Carthy for 18 months, and in 2025-6, took her songs to Aotearoa and Australia for four months to critical acclaim. She was awarded the Dennis Dubetz Award for her contributions to Cygnet Folk Festival in Tasmania in February 2026.
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31 Toad Lane, OL12 0NU Rochdale, United Kingdom, 31 Toad Lane, Rochdale, OL12 0NU, United Kingdom
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