The Gleeman Guild presents: Goblin Band - An Evening of Period Folk and

Name: The Gleeman Guild presents: Goblin Band - An Evening of Period Folk and
Start: 2025-03-22T19:30:00+00:00
End: 2025-03-22T21:30:00+00:00
Location: Leicester Guildhall

Schedule

Sat Mar 22 2025 at 07:30 pm to 09:30 pm

UTC+00:00

Location

Leicester Guildhall | Leicester, EN

"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?”
- MARTIN CARTHY
Goblin Band formed from sessions of the same name run out of the HobGoblin Music shop in central London, organised by a collection of young queer folk obsessive friends and shop employees looking to forge their own way into folk music. This gave rise to a band of multi-instrumentalists firmly rooted in the folk music of Britain, interpreted via the socialist tradition concerned with folk’s relationship to the history of the working classes, capitalism, and colonialism. Through a fusion of harmony singing, fiddle, squeezebox, hurdy gurdy, recorders and more, Goblin Band deliver a charismatic alternative expression of English traditional culture in a way which is at once riotously joyful and deeply sincere.
Doors from 7pm, show starts at 7.30pm