Greenbank Folk Club presents - Craven - Album Launch Show

Craven are a part English, part Welsh, dark folk trio based in the South West. Their music is at once grinding and symphonic, but also delicate and ethereal. Their sound draws far and wide from punk, electronic music, and film music as well as traditional music from both Europe and the wider world.

The trio takes traditional music and upends it, using word-painting to create sound-worlds for age-old stories. From songs exploring transness, queerness, yearning and bitterness, to white-hot rage against injustice, Craven make a beautiful Frankenstein´s Monster of British folk music.

From spit and sawdust DIY venues to the home of English Folk - Cecil Sharp House, Craven’s performances leave you speechless and tearful, engrossing audiences from many genres and backgrounds. Their music is an exploration into the ideas and opportunities of what is possible for folk music.

Craven comprises Will Bremner (Accordions), Elian Moisey (Double Bass, Viola da Gamba) and Rhiannon Takel (Violin, Octave Mandola, Harmonium). They use stomp boxes, bells, a foot-keyed harmonium and a pedal operated 120 year old drum to create a maximal sound with minimal musicians. This use of live, raw sound production is integral to their visceral storytelling, and is a hair’s breadth from carnage.

Greenbank Folk Club is committed to developing our access & inclusion in every aspect of what we do. Please get in touch if you have any particular access needs or would like to make a suggestion for how we can do things better in the future. We encourage you to fill out our survey after each event so we can hear your thoughts - QR code available in the venue.

This event takes place upstairs at The Greenbank Pub, Easton, Bristol BS5 6DP - unfortunately there is currently no wheelchair access to this space as it's accessed by stairs.

£12 and £15 tickets are available in advance - tickets on the door will be £18. We strongly advise that you book in advance if you'd like to attend as we cannot guarantee there will be door tickets available if the event sells out.

This event will be seated with some standing space. Seats are unallocated, first come first serve.

Please tell your friends and share this event - live music and dancing only takes place with the support of the community around us.

We would like to thank our partner projects, The Greenbank, EFDSS (English Folk Dance and Song Society) and Arts Council England for their support in this project.

What to expect on arrival (video) - https://www.instagram.com/reel/DHYYhGWKg1L/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==

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