Jacken Elswyth

@jacken.elswyth

Banjo playing, building, & repair. Epic drone folk w/ @shovel_dance_collective , free folk & improv in other combinations. Queer / trans / communist.
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Next Week! May 19th at @thehorsehospital Bégayer + Greater London Banjo Trio Tickets on sale now via Dice French songs, noises, rumors of distant and early musics, short and cruel poems, handcrafted instruments, Radio-amplifiers, circuit bending and other wasted electronic devices. Bégayer is a quintet from the south-east of France. the Greater London Banjo Trio are @jacken.elswyth and @o.__._._.o.o from @shovel_dance_collective and R from @mlkwd_
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4 days ago
Here they come, na na na na na na, middle aged punks
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21 days ago
The Holloway @thehollowaynorwich presents Arianne Churchman & Benedict Drew with support from Jacken Elswyth + Fenland Drone Workshop Friday 8th May ‘26 7-11pm (doors 7pm) The Holloway, Norwich £10 Part of our Folk Experimenta Series Funded by Arts Council England @aceagrams Arianne Churchman (@ariannechurchman ) & Benedict Drew (@benedictdrew ) Drawing from deep roots in English folklore, Churchman & Drew reimagine traditional music through an experimental lens-layering voice, electronics, and noise into something both ancient and otherworldly. Think pastoral psychedelia colliding with a more abstract, “Electronic Eden.” Jacken Elswyth (@jacken.elswyth ) Banjo player, instrument builder, and member of @shovel_dance_collective . Jacken explores traditional folk through drone, improvisation, and minimalism-stretching tamiliar torms into hypnotic, meditative spaces. Fenland Drone Workshop (@fenlanddroneworkshopfdw ) A Cambridgeshire-based collective creating expansive, improvised drone sessions-organic, immersive soundscapes that feel unearthed from the marshes themselves. Deep, resonant, and transportive. Tickets via thehollowaynorwich.com
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21 days ago
Pre & post easter - Sullow gigs, ancient yew & memento mori in Sollers Hope, cava with Rev Mo on Easter afternoon, dungeoncrawling.
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1 month ago
Further evidential scraps from Saturday's Sullow performance at @thenewfolkfest - thanks to @danieljohnsongray for the photos
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1 month ago
Thanks to Byron Coley for this great review of Leafing Through…. All the more poignant after the recent passing of the hero that was our dear friend Glenn Storhaug, for whom the soundtrack was made… find the cassette on our Bandcamp #byron coley - features the banjo and piano work of the iridescent Jacken and the accordion manipulation of the one and only Mo Budd
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1 month ago
Scraps of evidence of the weekend's Sullow gigs - footage taken by @robbentall . Thank you to @hedgehogtheband , @sonidopolifonico , and @thenewfolkfest for being lovely hosts all and giving us such nice places to play. The AB BA tape that we put together for this mini tour is up for listening & purchase on my Bandcamp - look in my bio for the link.
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1 month ago
This week Sullow (myself, with @shovel_dance_collective comrades Daniel S Evans & Joshua Barfoot performing as free-folk scatter-improv unit) are playing gigs in: Manchester @pinkmcr_ w/ @hedgehogtheband (Thursday) Sheffield @bishopshousesheffield w/ Spiral (Friday) Huddersfield @thenewfolkfest (Saturday) We've put this tape (double AB side) together for the occasion - two duos recorded almost blind and compiled with pre-existing tape noise. Find it on my bandcamp. Limited edition tape - some available here, the rest available from us at the gigs.
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1 month ago
I built some tape shelves :)
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2 months ago
Come celebrate Earth Day and Mossy Tapes birthday with @hedgehogtheband Sullow and @fenlanddroneworkshopfdw on 22 of April at @spanners.club . 🌎🌏🌍 Tickets up on Bandcamp
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2 months ago
At the end of next month Sullow will be embarking on a sequence of several silibant shows in Stockport, Sheffield, and Slaithewaite. Come see me, @joshbarfoot and @o.__._._.o.o get our free folk on at: @pinkmcr_ on thurs 26th March with @hedgehogtheband @bishopshousesheffield (thanks to @sonidopolifonico ) on Fri 27th March @thenewfolkfest on Saturday 28th March along with loads of excellent people.
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3 months ago
We sat down with experimental/trad banjo player, label owner, Shovel Dance Collective member and denizen of London's new folk clubs @jacken.elswyth last year and discovered what inspired her musical journey. She returns to Cecil Sharp House on Wed 11 Feb as part of Feminist Folk Club. Read the interview and book Feminist Folk Club at the link in bio.
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3 months ago