Alula Down (Leftfield Folk - Hereford) + Black Brunswicker Live in Sowerby Bridge
Schedule
Wed May 06 2026 at 08:00 pm to 10:00 pm
UTC+01:00Location
Puzzle Hall Community Pub | Luddenden Foot, EN
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Weds 6th May 2026ADRA promotions and Puzzle Hall Inn present …
Alula Down
Leftfield folk duo from Hereford, Weirdshire combining traditional song, field recordings, improvisation and original compositions gaining The Guardian’s ‘Folk Album of the Month’.
https://aluladown.bandcamp.com/
Black Brunswicker
Ambient fingerpicked guitar and tape loop instrumentals from Indiana-via-Manchester’s Etta Helfrich
https://blackbrunswicker.bandcamp.com/
at Puzzle Hall Inn, 21 Hollins Mill Lane, Sowerby Bridge, HX6 2RF
8pm - 10pm (prompt start - live music finished in time for last trains to Leeds/Manc).
FREE ENTRY with donations for bands gratefully accepted
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ALULA DOWN (Kate Gathercole & Mark Waters) make music that is born of relationship, exploring connection with the land and with the magical and ordinariness of our human-being – treating the ecology of place as a point of communion.
With eclectic musical roots, they make use of collage, improvisation and field recording. Their explorations of folk song and their own self written songs are underpinned with drone and textured soundscape. Recognising that many traditional / vernacular (‘folk’) songs illuminate dispossession and inequality, Alula Down explore these divisions between self and other.
They have been acclaimed by The Guardian ‘Folk Album of the Month’.
Kate & Mark live in Herefordshire and have played music together since they first met. Recent musical collaborations include work with multi-award winning author Max Porter, and playing with celebrated banjo player Jacken Elswyth on her album At Fargrounds. They also sing and play with psych-folk band Sproatly Smith, make improv noise with rushes/esp, and sing a-cappella with the Bushel Bag Carollers.
Part of The Weirdshire Society, they support local shows featuring folk, left-field and experimental live music from travelling musicians. Kate & Mark also run seasonal community folk song choirs in Herefordshire.
https://aluladown.wordpress.com/
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As ambient folk artist Black Brunswicker, Etta Helfrich creates rich ground for reflection with roaming instrumentals closely rooted in nature, casting a restful spell. The Bloomington, Indiana-born artist grew up in the Midwest and brings the sweeping plains of the landscape into their expansive guitar-led sound, drawing you closer to something primordial, vast, and earthy.
Accordingly bound up with a sense of adventure and wanderlust, much of Helfrich’s output has been shaped by the experience of travel (Helfrich is now based in Manchester, UK), from the small trips taken around her new UK home on Wanderers in the North (2020) and the pastel-hued snapshot of the Czech Republic on Age of Aristocracy (2019) to the daydreaming that propelled the 2020 lockdown release Wilder Paths.
Her 2024 full-length Been Around Here Before used DIY tape loops, field recordings, and washes of ambient guitar to map out the Midwest through a collection of mellowed-out, sun-glazed postcards. Recorded with local musicians from the Indiana-born artist’s new home in Manchester, England—including vocalist Emily Mercer—the LP revisits US road trips and natural beauty spots to build a summer scrapbook of her past, helping her to process present-day anxieties and find a quiet stillness through music.
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