A Quirky Evening at the Old Operating Theatre Museum & Herb Garret

Come and explore the museum after dark. You will be able to check out the exhibitions at night (creepiness guaranteed!); grab a drink at the Apothecary Wine Bar (we also have beer & soft drinks); discovery the tales of the bodysnatchers; participate in a couple of interactive experiences (no, we are still not telling what they are! We like to keep it all mysterious just so you can be pleasantly surprised!), and for the first time we welcome to the Old Operating Theatre Museum & Herb Garret the talented Lunatraktors! What? You don’t know about them? Excellent! This is the perfect opportunity to experience their amazing performance in our quirky space.

If you still want to know more about Lunatraktors, they are choreographer and percussionist Carli Jefferson (she/her), and vocalist and researcher Clair Le Couteur (they/them). They began in 2017 with the post-apocalyptic question: what’s left when we’ve lost everything? Stripping folk song down to bare bones, Lunatraktors’ ‘broken folk’ blends Le Couteur’s self-taught overtones and four-octave range with a hybrid of tap dance, flamenco and body percussion, which Jefferson developed after touring with STOMP (2001-2004). The pair turned heads when their percussion-and-vocals debut This Is Broken Folk made MOJO’s Top Ten Folk Albums of 2019, and again when second studio album The Missing Star reached MOJO’s #2 in 2021.