Lunatraktors

‘A clap of thunder over the lukewarm waters of contemporary folk.’ (Télérama, France). Lunatraktors are choreographer and percussionist Carli Jefferson (she/her), and visually-impaired vocalist and researcher Clair Le Couteur (they/them). The duo approach folk music as performance art, reworking Anglo-Celtic traditional music from the 1500s to the present. Lunatraktors are known for their primal, ritualistic sound. From the bare bones of vocal harmony and percussive dance, they expand into weird, playful spaces with acoustic beats, analogue synth basslines, whistles and bass accordion. Lunatraktors are proudly Queer and DIY. They received the British Music Collection LGBTQ+ Composer Award 2021, George Butterworth Award 2022, EFDSS Alan James Bursary 2022, and Creative Waterford Grant 2025. Ancient and contemporary, mournful and joyously deranged, Lunatraktors are ‘simply different’ (RTÉ Lyric FM, Ireland).