Blackbeard’s Tea Party come out for summer 2018 dates
Blackbeard’s Tea Party New Tour Dates 2018.
Playing together since the summer of 2009, Blackbeard’s Tea Party have become firm favourites on the English folk scene. An independent band with four albums to their name, Blackbeard’s Tea Party have also completed a number of successful UK headline tours.
Their latest album ‘Reprobates’ was produced by Dave Boothroyd at Reel Recording Studios. Barn-storming folk tunes rub shoulders with narrative folk songs, telling dark tales of wicked and nefarious characters. The title ‘Reprobates’ doesn’t just give their latest album its theme. It’s also a nod to the band’s reputation for musical mischief, frequently breaking folk-rock’s conventions. The album shows off the band’s imaginative arrangements, accomplished musicianship and dark sense of humour. ‘Reprobates’ follows the 2009 mini-album ‘Heavens to Betsy’; the band’s first full-length album, 2011’s ‘Tomorrow We’ll Be Sober’; and 2013’s ‘Whip Jamboree’ which R2 magazine called “the best party going on five inches of plastic.”
Blackbeard’s Tea Party combine fiddle, melodeon and voice with the interlocking grooves of two hand percussionists, a distorted electric guitar, and funk-inflected bass patterns. Though their music often takes traditional tunes and songs as the starting point, it’s clear that Blackbeard’s Tea Party is not for folk purists. Theirs is a gutsy take on folk which aims to renounce the trendy twee of bands like Mumford and Sons in favour of folk’s darker and more primitive origins, all by way of classic rock, funk and dance music. The resulting arrangements are often quirky and boisterous. This playfulness – along with their anarchic and ebullient stage show – has won Blackbeard’s Tea Party a small legion of fans.
Reception for the band has been phenomenal over the last three years: the Huffington Post called Blackbeard’s Tea Party the ‘THE band to see at Glastonbury 2014’ and, after they played to their biggest ever crowd at Fairport’s Cropredy Convention, they were overwhelmingly voted the best band of the festival by Fairport Convention fans.
April 2018
Fri 13. The Crescent Community Venue 8 The Crescent, York, N. Yorkshire YO24 1AW, Tel. 01904 622510 Tickets £6.00 — From 7:30 p.m.
Sat 21. The Lantern, 15 Alexandra St, Halifax, W. Yorkshire HX1 1BS, Tel. 07712 172088 Tickets £6.00 — From 8:00 p.m.
May 2018
Fri 18. Shepley Spring Festival Marsh Ln, Shepley, Huddersfield, W. Yorkshire HD8 8AP, Tel. 01484 604704 See website for tickets and times.
Sun 20. The Greystones Greystones Rd, Sheffield, S Yorkshire S11 7BS, Tel. 0114 266 5599 Tickets £13.00 — From 8:00 p.m..
Fri 25. The Musician 42 Crafton St W, Leicester, E. Leicester LE1 2DE, Tel. 0116 251 0080 Tickets £12.00 — From 8:00 p.m.
Sat 26. Ropery Hall 56 Maltkiln Rd, Barton-upon-Humber, N. Lincolnshire DN18 5JW, Tel. 01652 660 380 Tickets £13.00 — From 8:00 p.m..
June 2018
Fri 1. Sound Circus 140-142 Holdenhurst Rd, Bournemouth, Dorset BH8 8AS, Tel. 01202 900 014 Tickets £6.00 — From 8:00 p.m.
Sat 2. Arlington Arts Centre Mary Hare, Snelsmore Common, Newbury RG14 3BQ, Tel. 01635 244 246 Tickets £13.00 — From 8:00 p.m.
Thurs 7. Alexander’s Rufus Court, Chester, Cheshire CH1 2JW, Tel. 01244 401 402 Tickets £6.00 — From 8:00 p.m.
Fri 8. National Forest Folk Club Moira Miners’ Welfare, Moira, near Ashby de la Zouch, Leicestershire, E Midlands DE12 6BP, Tel. 01283 216 375 Tickets £11.00 — From 8:00 p.m.
Sat 9. Folk House 40a Park St, Bristol BS1 5JG, Tel. 0117 926 2987 Tickets £13.25 — From 7:30 p.m.
August 2018
Sun 5. A New Day Festival, Mount Ephraim Gardens, Staple Street, Hernhill, Faversham, Kent ME13 9TX, Tel. 020 3372 4861
Tues 7. Sidmouth Folk Week
Wed 15. Broadstairs Folk Week
Sun 26. Towersey Festival