![]() ![]() This month’s global Pride events acknowledge the richness of queer identity, and folk music is increasingly part of that: gay, lesbian, trans and other artists are using it to communicate their experiences and speak to a community whose stories are rare in the genre. ![]() But while one room celebrated folk music’s recent history, the other pondered what it might yet be. The setup in both rooms was much the same – intriguing collaborations in which emerging acts shared the stage with more established ones. One floor up in the Strathclyde Suite, the Bogha-frois (or rainbow, pronounced Boa frosh) project was bringing together queer folk musicians from Scotland and beyond, with “Trans rights are human rights” marked out in black tape on a cajon drum, and a rainbow-coloured fiddle lighting up the back of the stage. In the main room of the Glasgow Royal Concert Hall was a variety evening with some of the genre’s biggest names. I n February, on the final night of this year’s Celtic Connections festival, folk music travelled through time in two directions at once. ![]()
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