On tour now, Clair and Carli say: “We’re one week into the tour and feeling so much emotion from our audiences. A lot of laughing, a lot of crying. It feels more powerful than ever to make live performance during these harrowing days of political, ecological and humanitarian catastrophe. Singing this set of songs — a huge journey from Elizabethan to Victorian — we are always responding live to the resonance of spaces, heritages, audiences. It’s always new, always thrilling.”
Rooted in their self-named genre broken folk, the project examines what it means to create in response to the endless cycles of despair and injustice – to gather, despite it all, and absorb sound as vibration, as shared memory. A standout thread in this project is the duo’s ongoing commitment to trans rights and disability justice, which pulses through their music and their wider performance ethos. Each recording and event is a live act of recombination, reworking archival fragments, salvaged songs, and field recordings 2019–2025, many of which emerged from Lunatraktors’ collaborations with artists, museums and galleries. Carli and Clair both came late to folk music, starting out in performance and installation art. Besides building their loyal following playing queer cabarets, folk venues, theatres and festivals, Lunatraktors have been crafting soundscapes in response to open calls and invitations from other artists and researchers.
Quilting Points are the places where layers meet, where fragments are stitched together under tension to create something new. Neither a conventional tour nor a conventional album, Quilting Points invites audiences, artists, and co-conspirators into an unfolding process: a reworking of the archive, a remix of broken folk, a reclamation of lost material, and a live expression of protest, lament, and resilience. The Quilting Points album pieces together a patchwork of improvisations, re-arrangements of traditional songs, and original compositions.
Artists’ website: https://www.lunatraktors.space/
Ticket Links: https://www.lunatraktors.space/events
‘Now The Time’ – live:
Ticket Links: https://www.lunatraktors.space/events
- 7 May – With Alex Etchart, Brunswick Pub, Hove
- 14 May – With Alex Etchart, The Jam Jar, Bristol
- 17 May – With Goblin Band at East Anglian Folklore Centre, Colchester Castle
- 23 May – Waterside Arts, Sale, Trafford
- 24 May – Folklore Centre, Todmorden with special guest Burning Salt
- 28 May – Norfolk Folklore Society Carrow House Orangery, Norwich
- 31 May – Special birthday Event, Pwllheli
- 3 June – The Bell Inn, Bath
- 6 June – Petworth Sessions, Petworth
- 7 June – Prema Arts, Uley
- 8 June – Green Scythe Fair, Thorney Lakes
- 10 June – Crookes Social Club Sheffield with Lucy and Hazel
- 13 June – More Music, Morecambe
- 14 June – Horse and Bamboo, Rossendale
- 17 June – Where Else Space, with Lucy and Hazel, Margate
- 18 June – Secret Location, Canterbury
- 20 June – Campfire Club, Nest Folk, Cody Dock, London
- 21 June – With Maddie Morris Music All Hallows, Leeds
- 26 June – Uxbridge Folk Club
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