Grace Petrie

Well over a decade into her career, protest singer, LGBTQ+ activist, and comedy audiences’ favourite Grace Petrie stands out as one the most important songwriters working in the UK today. Exploding onto the folk scene in 2010 with the low-fi acoustic guitar/vocal release Tell Me a Story, Petrie quickly attracted attention with her polemical folk anthems, acerbic lyricism and open-hearted performance style. Support slots for the likes of Billy Bragg and Emmy The Great soon followed, with The Guardian declaring her “a powerful new songwriting voice”; and 2018’s Queer As Folk catapulted Petrie from cult status to mainstream attention.