Weird Lake Lounge w/ La Conza (Avant-Folk, France) + Mary Hampton (Alt Folk), Live in Lowick Green

ADRA Promotions and Grizedale Arts present

Weird Lake Lounge

a night of contemporary takes on traditional folk music in a 16th Century Pub and Arts Centre with …

reimagined traditional French songs from experimental French quartet
https://raffutcollectif.bandcamp.com/album/ni-nuit-ni-jour

Mary Hampton
Award winning English folksinger, musician and composer whose work is influenced by Symbolism, folk, Lo-fi and chamber music.
https://maryhampton1.bandcamp.com/track/proud-maisie

£12/£10 (concessions)

Food and Accommodation available

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La Cozna brings together musicians Clémentine Ristord (bass clarinet, drone box), Benjamin Garson (electric guitar), Pierre-Antoine Despatures (double bass) and Nicolas Jacobée (vocals). The quartet takes a series of traditional French songs from 20th-century collections and brings them into the present. Passed down in whispers in the secrecy of kitchens, these women’s songs are stories of love, violence and freedom that play on domination with humour, drama and poetry. In Ni Nuit Ni Jour, the ambiguity of the lyrics flirts with a feverish sound, tense with desire and darkness.

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Mary Hampton makes new versions of traditional songs and offers them up as questions, and sometimes challenges, to the modern listener. Using voice, tenor guitar and a selection of other tools, she carries them through her own peculiarly raw and
tender sound-world. The stories she tells explore the timeless liability of embodied experience. “Hampton is a rare talent” The Guardian

Mary Hampton is an award winning English folksinger, musician and composer whose work is influenced by Symbolism, folk, Lo-fi and chamber music. Creating new versions of traditional songs she offers them up as questions, and sometimes challenges, to the modern listener. Using voice, tenor guitar and a selection of other tools, she carries them through her own peculiarly raw and tender sound-world. The stories she tells explore the timeless liability of embodied experience.

Hampton has also supported musicians including: Eliza Carthy, Dick Gaughan, Martin Carthy, Tom Brosseau, Mike Heron, Broadcast, Birdengine, Ariel Pink, Jarboe, Baby Dee, Adam Green, Orchestra Tout Puissant Marcel Duchamp and Sea Power and toured with artists including Diane Cluck, Alasdair Roberts and James Yorkston and has worked on many commissions including for BBC Radio 3 and The Aldeburgh Festival.

“Very English, very unusual, and proof that if you want to make art, you just have to ignore debilitating forces and get on with it”. – The Times