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 years event will be a magical and folkloric matinee concert, to begin at dusk (around 5pm) with his “kinfolk” band, accordion, dulcimer, psaltery, viola and step dancing all to back Wolfs 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 so to honour the albums central metaphor and imagery of East Kents 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 quarter house is a very intimate 250 seat theatre which, with the very cliffs songs like Wolf’s “Hymn of the Haar” were written about right at the end of the road to see, we cannot wait to open the doors this Yule to all Yulecomers for this very special Kentish homecoming show for Patrick.
