Old Baby Mackerel
Fri 02 May
|Golant
Old Baby Mackerel play high-energy, foot-stomping Bluegrass featuring a dizzying line-up of renowned musicians from some of the UK’s best folk, Americana and festival bands. They are bringing their mix of fiddles, guitar and harmonies to Bar Silo // Catered by Cornish Maid for a magical evening of


Time & Location
02 May 2025, 18:30 – 23:00
Golant, Bar Silo South Torfrey Farm, Golant, Fowey PL23 1LA, UK
About the Event
MUSIC:
Old Baby Mackerel play high-energy, foot-stomping Bluegrass featuring some of the UK’s best Bluegrass musicians. Be prepared to be transported back in time to the early 20th century and across the Atlantic to North America where songs dramatized the small town fascination with locomotion, religion and the veneration of whisky and bootleg liquor. Gathered around a single condenser microphone in the true Bluegrass style, the sounds of banjo, guitar, mandolin, fiddle and double bass blend lightning-fast rhythm, virtuosic solos and evocative harmonies to get knees bouncing and elbows swinging.
In the last four years Old Baby Mackerel have been featured on three different BBC radio stations including 6 Music with Cerys Matthews, played Glastonbury Festival festival twice (2019 and 2022) and sold out venues across the UK such as Green Note in London, The Acorn in Penzance and Seaford Little Theatre in Sussex. In 2024 they completed a sold…