Blackbeards Tea Party

Blackbeard’s Tea Party
Christmas show!
Friday 6th December, 7.30pm
Tickets are £12 (+ b/f) in advance (more on the door) and available from See Tickets.

This is a standing show

Their bold and rioutous modern folk rock is built for late nights and big stages. Hold on to your tri-corn hats and be prepared to stamp your wooden legs – Blackbeard’s Tea Party are in town.

Sea-shanties will be given a bombastic rock edge, and folk instrumentals will become late-night floor-fillers when this raucous bunch of reprobates hit the stage. They have dirt under their fingernails and a twinkle in their eyes, and you can expect fantastic musicianship, playful choreography and an unstoppable urge to move your body.

Blackbeard’s Tea Party believe a live show should be a spectacle for the eyes as well as the ears. Outlandish outfits, costume changes, DIY props, unhinged stage antics and chaotic choreography all add up to an engaging, high-octane show that inevitably leaves audiences cheering for more.

Two drummers, electric guitars, fiddle, melodeon and 4-part harmonies combine to create music that is drenched in tradition, but filtered through a kaleidoscope of modern rock and pop. Established as the go-to band for folkin’ fun shenanigans, Blackbeard’s Tea Party have played memorable sets at; Glastonbury, Cambridge Folk Festival, Fairport’s Cropredy Convention, The Rainforest World Music Festival in Borneo and many many more.

Press:

‘Contemporary folk rock at its most infectious’
R2

‘York’s answer to The Pogues, but with cleaner fingernails’
The Telegraph

‘Blackbeard’s Tea Party restored my faith in foot-tapping, fun, energy-packed music recently. In short: they make shanties chic’
Roger Crow, Huffington Post

‘Gloriously wild, gamely OTT and sharp. This is convincing and essential’
fRoots

‘Barnstorming buccaneers belting our riff-tastic folk rock’
Songlines

Blackbeard’s Tea Party
Christmas show!
Friday 6th December, 7.30pm
Tickets are £12 (+ b/f) in advance (more on the door) and available from See Tickets.