Launching Knutsford Music Festival 2024 at the Little Theatre Mark Radcliffe presents Frankie Archer with special guests, Virginia Kettle's Rolling Folk.

Frankie Archer has exploded onto the electrofolk scene with music that transcends stereotypes using a combination of manipulated samples, synths, drum tracks and earthy Northumbrian fiddle and voice to capture her audience. Her aim? To shake up genres and traditions, challenge perspectives and call for a fairer future.

“Extraordinary” Jools Holland
“Fascinating and intoxicating” Mark Radcliffe, BBC Radio 2
"She doesn't just push boundaries but smashes them out of the solar system”
Tony Birch, FATEA

Virginia Kettle is at the heart of the creative force within Merry Hell. As a prolific writer of songs, Rolling Folk gives Virginia the chance to share a variety of songs not included in the Merry Hell repertoire. Offering the same level of song writing excellence as Merry Hell, but a different, more intimate feel, as well as some additional musical explorations, the Rolling Folk project surrounds Virginia with a fabulous and interesting selection of players, particularly multi, multi-instrumentalist Chris Lee, (Full House, Time Bandits, Family Mahone, Galleon Blast, Rad Co., etc, etc etc) and percussionist, whistle player and flautist, Mark Wooley (Ade Edmondson's Bad Shepherds, Full House, session master and more) – as well as husband John, all giving breadth and depth to her musical and lyrical visions.

This evening of folk promises to be a fitting launch to Knutsford's annual Music Festival.