Folk Critique + Cambridge Companion to Folk Music – launch event
Friday, July 31, 2026 · 7:30 PM – 11:00 PM
Artists
‘These things were on the walls in Tudor times: some of them are really old, some not so old. But that tradition of discussing song, which I would love to find traces of – there must be some traces but, like with a lot of vernacular culture, they evaporate.’
Please join us for a double launch, celebrating the publication of Folk Critique, a new pamphlet from Ross Cole and the Fair Organ collective; and the Cambridge Companion to Folk Music (edited by Ross Cole), a groundbreaking new collection of essays on traditional culture and its continuing power in today’s world.
The evening will include a discussion of folk revivalism, nationalism, resistance and what it means to take an attitude of ‘folk critique’; performances from Angeline Morrison, the Black British Folk Collective, Mataio Austin-Dean and Jacken Elswyth; and readings from Aisha Farr and Grace Connolly Linden.
We hope attendees will stay to have a drink and a chat afterwards.
Generously supported by The Leverhulme Trust.
Please join us for a double launch, celebrating the publication of Folk Critique, a new pamphlet from Ross Cole and the Fair Organ collective; and the Cambridge Companion to Folk Music (edited by Ross Cole), a groundbreaking new collection of essays on traditional culture and its continuing power in today’s world.
The evening will include a discussion of folk revivalism, nationalism, resistance and what it means to take an attitude of ‘folk critique’; performances from Angeline Morrison, the Black British Folk Collective, Mataio Austin-Dean and Jacken Elswyth; and readings from Aisha Farr and Grace Connolly Linden.
We hope attendees will stay to have a drink and a chat afterwards.
Generously supported by The Leverhulme Trust.