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Brown Wimpenny Sings at The Portico

  • The Portico Library 57 Mosley Street Manchester, England, M2 3HY United Kingdom (map)

Tickets £12.50 plus fee in advance here. £15 on the door on the night.

Brown Wimpenny are an 11-piece folk ensemble based in south Manchester. Described by The Quietus as a source of “energy, eccentricity, communion and joy”; they weave traditional music, from the British Isles and beyond, into a web of jigs, reels, hornpipes, drones, dense textures and choral harmonies.

Despite their lack of formal musical releases, Brown Wimpenny have already featured at this year’s Green Man Festival, Cambridge Folk Festival and Northgate Folk Festival; sold-out five Manchester headline shows; and performed at renowned venues like Factory International and The Broadside Hacks Folk Club in London.

While all being involved in various classical, experimental, contemporary noise, post-punk, and electronic music projects, these young musicians are now poised to carve their slice of the scene from which to expand this big trad experiment.

Band members:

Anna Korbel

Archie Barker

Luke Morris

Seth Lockwood

Rory Greig

Ted Downer-Wills

James Hawdale

James Brown

Ella Evans

Chris Bright

Jess Korbel