Date/Time
Saturday 3 May 2025
7:30 pm - 10:00 pm
Categories Folk
Book here now: £15 full price • £10 or £7 if you prefer – please pay what you can*
We always have three prices – pay less and come to more things 🙂
Lunatraktors are choreographer and percussionist Carli Jefferson, and nonbinary vocalist and composer Clair Le Couteur. Influenced by flamenco, post-punk and trip hop, their’ ‘broken folk’ sound strips trad folk back to rhythm and voice. The pair turned heads in 2019 when their DIY debut This Is Broken Folk – recorded live in a viaduct arch by Ramsgate harbour – made it onto MOJO Magazine’s Top Ten Folk Albums. New releases blend analogue synth, whistles, accordion with tuned drums, vocal harmonies and a hybrid of tap dance and body percussion, which Jefferson developed after touring with Stomp.
Reimagining British folk through a shared teenage absorption in dance music and art rock, Lunatraktors have built up a passionate fanbase through performances at festivals, art galleries, museums, theatres and queer cabarets. Jefferson’s compulsion to dance while drumming prompted Lunatraktors to put together a tonal percussion kit, providing both rhythmic and melodic elements to their sound. A double act in the old fashioned sense, Le Couteur’s channeling voices of multiple tragi-comic characters matches Jefferson’s hyper-expressive performance style.
More about Lunatraktors at https://lunatraktors.space/
Listen here on Bandcamp:
https://lunatraktors.bandcamp.com/
Here are three videos:
https://youtu.be/ZFXH87F-uVI”>16,000 Miles
https://youtu.be/91S1S4f_Quc”>Anemoia
https://youtu.be/6MMNcJWeSxo”>Turn of the Plough
This event is also part of Summer is Ready! Field System’s Mayday Celebration run in collaboration with our neighbours, https://fieldsystem.co.uk/
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See Access, Tickets & Finding Us for more about why there are three ticket prices, plus other useful info about coming to events at Ashburton Arts Centre: getting here, parking, loos, PA tickets, etc.
* We usually have three ticket prices – please pay what you can. If you can pay the full price, that’s great. If choosing a cheaper ticket allows you to come to more things, then please do! Ticket receipts are split between the artists (it’s usually their livelihood!) and the arts centre (keeps the place going). Except on the rare occasions when we have a sellout gig on our hands, it’s always better to have someone here in the audience than an empty seat, so genuinely, please pay whatever you can.