Songs For Lughnasadh

Songs For Lughnasadh comes to The Folklore Rooms on Friday 31 July, an evening of live folk and experimental music built around Lughnasadh. If the name doesn't ring a bell, it's the Gaelic festival marking the beginning of the harvest, sitting halfway between the Summer Solstice and the Autumn Equinox. The whole night is set up to celebrate that particular turn of the season.

On stage are Emily Izen Row, The Pegwells, and Florence Rose Bloomfield. The bill pulls from folk and experimental music, so you'll get a mix of the two across the night rather than one following the other. The evening is framed as storytelling accompanied by gentle live music, and the audience is invited to join in and celebrate the season through that.

Lughnasadh itself is the harvest festival, the point in the year when the first crops are gathered and the days start to shorten. It's the midpoint between the longest day and the Autumn Equinox, so it's a good time to mark the shift from the height of summer into the harvest. That's the context the music is working around, with the storytelling and the live sets tied to that particular moment in the calendar.

It's at The Folklore Rooms, 12 North Street, BN1 3GJ, starting at 20:00 on Friday 31 July. Tickets are £17.00.