A gig held at Cafe Kino on Friday 9th December. The event starts at 19:00.
Cuculi Records presents two of Bristol's finest upcoming songwriters, Pearl Love & Bec Garthwaite, for a double bill of original alt-folk music that illustrates the vibrant variety in our local grassroots music community. Join us for a cosy winter evening of subtle lyricism and nourishing vocal harmonies in the snug basement of Cafe Kino, a much-loved workers' co-op on Stokes Croft. Vegan food, coffee, beer and more all available from the kitchen.
Tickets: £7 / £10 / £14 - please pay what you can afford, and consider that others may not be able to afford the higher ticket prices.
This event is part of our ongoing Cuculi Presents series of folk gigs around Bristol. For full listings visit cuculirecords.com/events, or search for 'Cuculi Presents' on Headfirst.
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PEARL LOVE
Pearl Love is a singer-songwriter, teacher and musician based in Bristol. Music is a key and undivided part of Pearl's identity, her songs offer listeners an insight into how she views the world around her and invites them to become immersed in the musical world she creates. Drawing from personal experiences Pearl’s songwriting is poetic and evocative, often showing the beauty that can be found in vulnerability. Although her songs are deeply personal the underlying themes are universally relatable and it is through these human emotions that Pearl finds connections with those to whom she performs. She has co-written and sung alongside other emerging artists, most recently contributing to albums by fellow Bristol songwriters boci and Tom Calladine.
"Pearl's songs exude an otherworldly freshness and innocence, a tonic for heavy days."
-Martha Tilston
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BEC GARTHWAITE
Bec Garthwaite pours an innately detailed craftsmanship into her songwriting. Her fingerpicked guitar strings construct a cat’s cradle in which her gentle, defiant voice can unfold itself, syllable by syllable, note by deliberate note. There’s a sense of wry melancholy in her dreamlike sound, as though she has looked right into the kaleidoscope and needs to tell us, with quiet assurance and lyrical poetry, what she saw between the lines .
As a longstanding member of dreamfolk trio Hands of the Heron, she has contributed performed at festivals and venues across the UK, and contributed multiple songs to their repertoire including 'Softly Spoken Woman', 'Making Space' and 'Skipping Rope'. Her debut solo album is currently in the works, and we hope to release it sometime in 2023.
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Cuculi Records joins a growing number of DIY labels based in Bristol, UK. It’s a collective effort imagined by songwriters and musicians as a space to cultivate our own sound and release it independently. We’re honoured to be sharing the emerging projects dreamed into being by friends from our community, with a focus on alt-folk, poetry, ambient and contemporary classical forms – as well as beautiful sounds that don’t have a name yet. Cuculi Presents is an opportunity to hear some of our artists live, alongside some of the most exciting musicians from around the UK.
@cuculirecords
cuculirecords.com
Entry requirements:
Tickets: £7 / £10 / £14 - please pay what you can afford, and consider that others may not be able to afford the higher ticket prices.
This event is part of our ongoing Cuculi Presents series of folk gigs around Bristol. For full listings visit cuculirecords.com/events, or search for 'Cuculi Presents' on Headfirst.
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PEARL LOVE
Pearl Love is a singer-songwriter, teacher and musician based in Bristol. Music is a key and undivided part of Pearl's identity, her songs offer listeners an insight into how she views the world around her and invites them to become immersed in the musical world she creates. Drawing from personal experiences Pearl’s songwriting is poetic and evocative, often showing the beauty that can be found in vulnerability. Although her songs are deeply personal the underlying themes are universally relatable and it is through these human emotions that Pearl finds connections with those to whom she performs. She has co-written and sung alongside other emerging artists, most recently contributing to albums by fellow Bristol songwriters boci and Tom Calladine.
"Pearl's songs exude an otherworldly freshness and innocence, a tonic for heavy days."
-Martha Tilston
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BEC GARTHWAITE
Bec Garthwaite pours an innately detailed craftsmanship into her songwriting. Her fingerpicked guitar strings construct a cat’s cradle in which her gentle, defiant voice can unfold itself, syllable by syllable, note by deliberate note. There’s a sense of wry melancholy in her dreamlike sound, as though she has looked right into the kaleidoscope and needs to tell us, with quiet assurance and lyrical poetry, what she saw between the lines .
As a longstanding member of dreamfolk trio Hands of the Heron, she has contributed performed at festivals and venues across the UK, and contributed multiple songs to their repertoire including 'Softly Spoken Woman', 'Making Space' and 'Skipping Rope'. Her debut solo album is currently in the works, and we hope to release it sometime in 2023.
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Cuculi Records joins a growing number of DIY labels based in Bristol, UK. It’s a collective effort imagined by songwriters and musicians as a space to cultivate our own sound and release it independently. We’re honoured to be sharing the emerging projects dreamed into being by friends from our community, with a focus on alt-folk, poetry, ambient and contemporary classical forms – as well as beautiful sounds that don’t have a name yet. Cuculi Presents is an opportunity to hear some of our artists live, alongside some of the most exciting musicians from around the UK.
@cuculirecords
cuculirecords.com
Entry requirements:
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