Name: Topette!!
Start: 2025-05-30T19:30:00+01:00
End: 2025-05-30T22:30:00+01:00
Location: Weedon Bec Village Hall

Topette!! occupy a unique position in the current folk and traditional music landscape. A collaboration between five highly-regarded individuals from two countries, they’re the kind of perfect idea that, if they didn’t already exist, someone would have to invent. Yet Topette!! are no mere ‘project’ band. They’re a fully-formed and functioning group of the kind that rarely comes around nowadays. Topette!! are a true collective – bonded as much by the joy found in each other’s company as in their shared musical vision.
Julien Cartonnet is a powerhouse on both bagpipes and banjo. Fiddler James Delarre’s innate melodic and harmonic sensibilities make him the perfect match for accordion virtuoso Andy Cutting. Tania Buisse’s propulsive bodhrán playing and Barn Stradling’s singularly distinctive bass grooves complete a sound that is irresistible to ears and feet alike.
Come for a dance, no partner necessary, or to listen to this band at the top of their game! The bar will be open with a selection of drinks, including locally brewed beers from the Roman Way Brewery in Weedon.
Doors open at 7pm.
Book online at https://www.weedonbalfolk.co.uk
General admission tickets are £18 when booked in advance, £20 on the door
Under-16 tickets are £8 when booked in advance, £10 on the door (when supervised by a responsible adult)
Under-5 are free when supervised by a responsible adult
Carers are free, please email us to book a ticket for them.