Lancashire dialect folk singer and broadside balladress Jennifer Reid moves between worlds with ease. Rooted in archives and oral histories, her work braids nineteenth-century music with the present: teaching, performing, researching, sharing, advocating and supporting spaces for memory and making in the tradition.
The singer, who has been described as having irreverent puckish vim, has worked with industry greats John Cooper Clarke, Eliza Carthy, and Shane Meadows amongst others, and studied at Oxford, specialising in the ballad collections of Manchester.
Her research has taken her from Venice to Dhaka via New York, where she asked whether the Industrial Revolution ever really ended. She has spoken on weaving songs in Bangladesh and Manchester, worked with scientists, poets, musicians, historians and universities and still finds time to sing stories that refuse to be forgotten.
“She is singing our belonging to our land, history, ancestry, with streetwise modernity” - Casey Orr
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Warwick and the Wankers - one man sings blues trash along with his band of limbs.
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Heleyni mixes indie rock, electronic art pop, pure experimental noise, and catchy melodies. Echoing the aesthetic of Riot Grrrl, her songwriting reflects the worlds of political contradiction, gender experience and the challenges of Capitalism in our time.
$25 on door ($15 unwaged)
