‘Broken folk’ duo Lunatraktors are choreographer and percussionist Carli Jefferson (she/her), and vocalist and researcher Clair Le Couteur (they/them). Reimagining British folk through a shared love of drum’n’bass, triphop, art rock and post-punk, Lunatraktors attract passionate fans at festivals, galleries, museums, theatres and queer cabarets.

Le Couteur’s self-taught overtones and 3+ octave range combine with Jefferson’s hybrid of tap dance, flamenco and tonal percussion, developed after touring with STOMP (2001-2004). The pair turned heads when their percussion-and-vocals debut This Is Broken Folk made MOJO’s Top Ten Folk Albums of 2019, and again when second studio album The Missing Star reached MOJO’s #2 in 2021. Lunatraktors are unsigned and DIY. They received the British Music Collection LGBTQ+ Composer Award 2021 & George Butterworth Award 2022, and EFDSS Alan James Bursary 2022

‘A clap of thunder over the lukewarm waters of contemporary folk.’ (Télérama).

The Lunatraktors gig opens with your invitation to enter into the watery world of the Selkie.
The dance performance by Aimee Williamson invites the audience to meet the Selkie on land, an environment not made for her. She will build connections, explore, play and make a home here, all before the call of the sea takes her back, like the ebb and flow of the tide.