L to R: Heide Peverelle, Gracie Sinclair, Jeanie Pilkington. Photo Credit: Copper Taylor-Bogaars
Melbourne/Naarm-based band Folk Bitch Trio, featuring Gracie Sinclair (she/her), Jeanie Pilkington (she/her) and Heide Peverelle (they/them), have signed to Jagjaguwar and celebrated with the release of new single/video, “The Actor.”
"Folk Bitch Trio arrive as a band with an undeniable point of view, pulling from traditional forms throughout their vocals, song themes, and compositional structure," reads a statement. "Their harmonies are rich and timeless, but what stands out the most with Folk Bitch Trio is their distinct lack of fear. They’re unafraid to get a little scuffed up, to be funny, to take risks, to subvert the genre’s expectations and pull it into the present. The result is lively, layered and beautiful; thoughtful and playful in the right places; serious, but never humorless."
"Folk Bitch Trio formed five years ago, and its members have been inseparable since," it continues.
“We have three individual voices,” they say, “but the story we tell is unified because our hearts are very melded.” Their music comes from the deep connection and collaboration that evolves between the three of them, encapsulating the growing pains they felt as people and a band in their early adult lives, touching on, as Heide says, “loss, fear, sex, rage, elation but most importantly love and laughs.”
Folk Bitch Trio will play select shows in the US this summer in New York on Tuesday, July 22nd at Nightclub 101 and in Los Angeles on Thursday, July 24th at Permanent Records. Tickets go on sale this Friday, April 18th, and will be available here.
Folk Bitch Trio Tour Dates
Wed. May 14 - London, UK @ St. Pancras Old Church
Thu. May 15 - Fri. May 16 - Brighton, UK @ The Great Escape
Sat, May 17 - Amsterdam, NL @ London Calling
Mon. May 19 - Paris, FR @ La Mécanique Ondulatoire
Thu. July 10 - Sun. July 13 - Winnipeg, MB @ Winnipeg Folk Festival
Tue. July 22 - New York, NY @ Night Club 101
Thu. July 24 - Los Angeles, CA @ Permanent Records
Thu. Aug. 14 - Sun. Aug. 17 - Crickhowell, UK @ Green Man Festival
For more info, visit instagram.com/fbtband.
