Grace Petrie at Wesley Anne

''Hello,' said Grace Petrie sweetly. 'I'm a protest singer.' Murmurs of approval. 'Actually I'm a socialist, feminist, lesbian, left wing protest singer...' The place erupted.' The first lines of The Guardian review of Cambridge Folk 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

'She writes the sort of songs you want to pin the lyrics of on your bedroom wall, or on the office door, to remind you and everyone else who might read them what is important and true' - Buzz Magazine

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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 our own Hannah Gadsby.

She has also racked up tour supports with Billy Bragg, Josie Long and in 2019 supported 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 festivals Latitude, Musicport, 2000Trees, Shrewsbury Folk Festival, Greenbelt, Cambridge Folk Festival and in 2019 packed out The Acoustic Stage at Glastonbury Festival. Her ground-breaking album, 'Queer As Folk', was released in Autumn 2018.

Through all of this Petrie has quietly become one of the most respected songwriters working in the UK today. She has been a frequent guest on BBC Radio 4's the Now Show, has appeared on Channel 4's Random Acts and has been featured in The Guardian, Diva Magazine and The Independent On Sunday and in 2019 was nominated as Musician Of The Year in the Diva Awards.

In May 2018 a Kickstarter campaign for her first full studio album, after five previous available-at-gig-only albums. She raised £10,000 in just 24 hours and went on to achieve £18.000 in the two week campaign. The album, 'Queer As Folk', was released in September 2018 and has gone on to be named a top 10 Folk Album of 2018 by Mojo Magazine.

'She's the urgent, pulsing, compassionate talent this world desperately needs.' The Observer

'Just when you thought that what folk music needs right now is a strident left-wing female causing a bit of carnage, here's Grace Petrie.' **** Mojo

'A millennial's Billy Bragg'- Songlines

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