Goblin Band perform in various formations alongside a billing of their favourite folkies. \- Goblin Band formed organically from intimate sessions of the same name run out of Hobgoblin Music, a folk instrument shop in Central London, and organised by a group of queer folk obsessive friends and shop employees. These sessions gave rise to a six piece band which, though firmly rooted in the traditional music of the British Isles, draws widely on medieval and early music, as well as the folk musical traditions from abroad. The sound concocted employs all manner of strings, squeezeboxes, hurdy gurdy, flutes, horns, jaw harps, and bells and whistles. The Goblins interpret folk song in relation to the political upheavals of past and present and strive to make a space for new audiences to experience traditional music in a manner which is both riotously joyful and deeply sincere. "They can play and they can sing and they’re fearless...When I saw Goblin Band singing recently, I just thought, “Why didn’t I think of that?...They move stuff around...They go back to versions that we were too snotty to touch and they turn them into stomps!" - MARTIN CARTHY \- Macdara Yeates Described by The Sid Valley Folk Show as “an absolutely stunning singer-a complete tour de force,” Macdara Yeates is one of a crop of young artists associated with the recent resurgence of traditional singing in Dublin City, alongside acts such as Lankum, Ye Vagabonds, and Landless. In 2012, Macdara became a founding member of The Night Before Larry Got Stretched, a Dublin folk collective counting such singers as Lisa O’Neill, Ian Lynch and Radie Peat (Lankum) among its earliest members. From 2013 to 2017, Macdara toured and recorded with seven-piece trad ensemble Skipper’s Alley, performing across the UK, Europe, India, Zambia, Canada, and the USA. With a booming baritone, described as “a crystal-clear voice that contains echoes of the declamatory style of Luke Kelly and the emotional depth-charge of Liam Weldon,”, Macdara’s debut solo effort marks a new arrival in the Irish folkscape. The singular ten-track record features a range of material; from lighter numbers such as Dublin comic song The Herrin’; to a haunting rendition of Johnny I Hardly Knew Ye, the 19th century anti-war ballad sounding ever relevant in today’s geo-political climate. Siobhán Long of The Irish Times writes; “Raucous, bawdy, reflective and wistful in turn, Macdara Yeates’s solo debut is a robust collection in which this Dublin singer revisits age-old tales and renders them anew with his own unforced imprint.” Presented by Broadside Hacks. This is an 18+ event