**We're running tickets on a sliding scale/pay what you can basis - If you'd like to further support the show, please consider choosing the supporter ticket. Also please feel free to show up on the day, if the show is not sold-out, we'll have tickets on the door with no one turned away for lack of funds**

hemlock is the swamp-raised, “phone-fi" alt-folk project of multi-disciplinary creative force Carolina Chauffe, currently anchored in south Louisiana, but more often on the highway. Doggedly DIY, touring nearly nonstop for the past few years on “permatour”, they strive to return music to where it has always existed - the house show, the porch, the field, the waterside.

An avid documenter and amateur archivist, Chauffe touts a prolific discography spanning hundreds of self-released songs since the project formed in 2018, including their ongoing phone-recorded song-a-day for-a-month saga, among a number of other studio albums. With a cast of rotating collaborators, their most recent studio LP, '444', was independently released in October 2024, featuring a wrecking crew of Chicago bandmates (Andy of Ratboys, Bailey of Friko, Jack of Free Range), and EP ‘Orange Streak Glow’ in November 2025, co-produced by Ryan Albert of Babehoven.

Frontperson Carolina has also toured & recorded in such acts as Little Mazarn (2019-present) and Merce Lemon (2023-present), among many others.

They are a neighbor, a gatherer, and a hopeful for a free Palestine, for a free tomorrow for all.

They will be a road dog for as long as they can, and a music-maker for as long as they live. They believe in miracles, and their favorite color lately is green.

Westelaken is a Toronto based band that at their simplest is a tight and twangy alt-country quartet. But they’re also prone to letting their songs open up, and following their whims beyond the confines of structure and convention, like lines of text spilling off of a page. In solo performance Jordan embraces intimacy and tension, leaning into the quiet, while the lines of text gather on the floor and lay like a nest hair clippings.

Support comes from Manchester-based Creepy Crawly and Doghouse.
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Creepy Crawly the project of Bristol-born and Manchester-based songwriter Rachel Cawley, was born from a need to turn an amassed collection of strange, confusing and unsettling life experiences into distilled reflections of how we become who we are, and how that sense of self is always shape-shifting and evolving.

With her distinctive crystalline vocals, Rachel weaves bittersweet narratives through richly layered songs, full of shimmering vocal harmonies and melodies that etch themselves slowly into the memory. Her songs drift across genres – fragile folk songs are sometimes joined by wobbling abrasive synths, and crunchy overdriven guitars give way to lilting lap-steel. Throughout her work, she shares first-person recollections of both miraculous and mundane moments that shape our identities.

Doghouse is a Manchester-based folk artist, blending melancholic, deadpan lyricism with intricate fingerpicked guitar.

https://hemlock.bandcamp.com/
https://westelaken.bandcamp.com/music
https://creepycrawly.bandcamp.com/music
https://www.instagram.com/doghouse.mp3/