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”Hello,” said Grace Petrie sweetly. “I’m a protest singer.” Murmurs of approval.“ Actually I’m a socialist, feminist, lesbian, leftwing protest singer...” The place erupted.’
The first lines of The Guardian review of Cambridge Folk Festival.
A folk singer, songwriter and activist from Leicester in England, Grace has been writing, recording and touring relentlessly for ten years and has won an army of loyal fans in the UK who pile into her shows to sing back every carefully placed word of every song.
Her unique takes on life, love and politics, and the warmth and wit with which they are delivered, have won over audiences across the alternative, folk, political and comedy scenes, including on recent support dates to Australia’s Hannah Gadsby. She has also racked up tour supports with Billy Bragg, Josie Long and in 2019supported Frank Turner on his UK arena tour.
She regularly tours sold out shows across the UK and has appeared at an eclectic genre-crossing mix of festivalsLatitude, Musicport, 2000Trees, ShrewsburyFolk Festival, Greenbelt,Cambridge Folk Festival and in 2019 packed out The Acoustic Stage at Glastonbury Festival.‘ She’s an effervescent charm-bomb of a performer, even alone with an acoustic guitar, as she was that night, singing about Theresa May. “We’re getting stand-up and music,” a woman next to me said.’ The New Yorker Her ground-breaking album,‘Queer As Folk’,was released in autumn 2018.
