Now a yearly tradition, Patrick Wolf brings his Yulenite winter solstice celebration concert to his home county of Kent with YULENITE ON SEA (A Kentish Yule) over two nights at the Folkestone Quarterhouse.
This year's event will be a magical and folkloric matinee concert, beginning at dusk (around 5pm), with his “kinfolk” band: accordion, dulcimer, psaltery, viola, and step dancing all backing Wolf’s multi-instrumental work with 5-string viola, piano, harp, and - for this Yulenite - his harpsichord, flute organ, and pianotron, driven over from his Ramsgate studio. Both nights will vary in setlist too, chosen from his 20 years of songwriting, themed around the shortest night of the year alongside specially chosen folk songs for this Yulenite on Sea.
These Kentish Yulenites will bring the year of his seventh album, Crying the Neck, to a close, and to honour the album’s central metaphor and imagery of East Kent’s Hooden Horses, Patrick has asked Trudgepig Folk Theatre to open each night with a traditional Christmas Hoodening - a type of play involving the death and resurrection of the Hooden Horse. The Quarterhouse is a very intimate 250-seat theatre which, with the very cliffs that songs like Wolf’s “Hymn of the Haar” were written about right at the end of the road to the sea, makes it the perfect setting.
We cannot wait to open the doors this Yule to all Yulecomers for this very special Kentish homecoming show for Patrick.