Folk Fantasy: Alex Etchart & Vientos + Lunatraktors

Touring the UK in 2025, Alex Etchart is bringing their new music project Vientos to Brighton & Hove.

Vientos trio connect dual-heritage folk roots to prog-rock electrónica to get crowds pumping to an earthy, girthy new sound.

Drenched in harmony, simmering with continent-hopping percussion, Alex' expansive range, neo soul riffs & utopian storytelling calls us to be our highest selves, holding nothing back. A cinematic dancescape of queer love in diáspora.

• Live at Rich Mix
• Queer utopia single / short film (5 festivals & counting)
• Alex' upcoming a capella album

“Cross-pollinating communities & spaces, keeping the folk flame alive in ways only Alex can" - SAM LEE

Duo Lunatraktors rework traditional music with influences from post-punk, music hall and pagan rave. Their primal, ritualistic sound blends tonal drumming and harmonic singing with deep drones from accordion and analogue synth. Stripping Anglo-Celtic traditions down to the bare bones before reanimating them in strange new forms, Le Couteur’s overtones and 3+ octave range combine with Jefferson’s polyrhythmic hybrid of tap, flamenco, body percussion and acoustic beats, developed after touring with STOMP (2001–2004).

• English Folk Expo Showcase
• YRAS 2025 Showcase Festival

MOJO Top Ten Folk Albums of 2019 and 2021.
British Music Collection LGBTQ+ Composers Award 2021.

Host or Publisher Alex Etchart Arts