Lowther’s Folk Ceilidh with Blackbeards Tea Party

Join us for our Ceilidh - a traditional Scottish or Irish social gathering that features high-energy folk music, along with singing, storytelling, and energetic group dancing.Blackbeards' Tea Party are the band performing at this event as part of the Lowther’s Folk & Roots Festival 2026.About Blackbeard's Tea PartyBlackbeard’s Tea Party have spent over seventeen years forging their distinctive brand of folk-rock, evolving from street buskers into a festival mainstay and established touring act.

They have taken to festival stages across the UK and beyond, including; Glastonbury, Cambridge Folk Festival, Fairport’s Cropredy Convention, the Rainforest World Music Festival in Borneo, Wilderness Festival, Towersey Festival, and many more.

Blending traditional tunes and songs with anarchic glam-rock energy, heavy riffs, and driving dance rhythms, their high-impact shows feature outlandish costumes, choreography, and stage antics, leaving audiences breathless and hungry for more.