Pefkin + Jacken Elswyth + Melanie Pegge

Gigs · Nottingham

Pefkin + Jacken Elswyth + Melanie Pegge

Saturday 21 November 2026 · Doors 20:00

By Our Hands We Make Our Way, Nottingham

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Pefkin + Jacken Elswyth + Melanie Pegge is on Saturday 21 November 2026 at By Our Hands We Make Our Way, Nottingham, with doors at 20:00. Tickets start at £11, including the booking fee.

An evening of experimental folk music in the warmth and magic of By Our Hands We Make Our Way with: PEFKIN Gayle Brogan performs solo under the name Pefkin, creating slowly-unfolding, ritualistic hymnals that draw heavily on the landscape and natural world, using processed violin/viola, electronics, voice and field recordings. She has released albums internationally on labels such as Morc, Wild Silence, Nite Hive, Folklore Tapes and Sonido Polifonico. She is also one half of innovative folk duo Burd Ellen, a third of psychedelic electric folk trio Meadowsilver, a member of megalith-inspired trio MMM (with Elizabeth Still and Nick Jonah Davis), and has collaborated with cult Irish singer-songwriter Alison O'Donnell and modular synth composer Jonathan Sharp. Pefkin emerged after the retro-futuristic psych / electronic duo Electroscope went into hibernation in 2000. She has released over 20 albums, most recently "The Rescoring" on Penelope Trappes' Nite Hive label, an album of sonorous viola drone layered with uneasy electronics and songs that reflect on transformation and change, and “Unfurling”, released in January 2026 by Belgian label Morc. Gayle moved from Scotland to Sheffie...

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Pefkin Jacken Elswyth Melanie Pegge

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