Performance
Acoustic Jam Session
Open to all...
- Location: Village hall
- When: Friday & Saturday, 9:30 pm
Adult cabaret 
Entertainment strictly for the over 18's!
Featuring: Amazeballs, Great Aunt Tranni, Shamanic Spice, Siobhán Fergus Evans
- Location: Big top
- When: Friday, 10pm
Al Head
Al Head (they/them) is a queer, nonbinary singer/songwriter.
They sing songs about lgbtqi+ community, solidarity and experience, and songs about land connection and the pagan wheel of the year.
They are an environmental, disability and lgbtqi+ activist, cocreated Queer Spirit Festival and are currently organising performance for Trans Pride Exeter.
- Location: Village hall
- When: Saturday, 8 pm
Amazeballs
Strap on and tuck in for a queer n’ spicy spoken word set that explores transness across gender and beyond, to the more-than-human world.
- Location: Big top
- When: Friday, 10pm (part of adult cabaret)
Anya Pailthorpe
Anya Pailthorpe is a folky singer-songwriter with tales of her adventures in love and connection, and the occasional deep dive into something darker.
With lyrics that connect to the heart, and melodies that draw on your emotions, Anya weaves a world that you can't help but be immersed by.
- Location: Orangery
- When: Saturday, 2 pm
- Location: Village hall
- When: Sunday, 7 pm
Astro Wild
Electro pop songs
- Location: Big top
- When: Saturday, 11:30 pm
Blossom
Blossom sings songs of connection – to our Earth, to each other, to Spirit.
Having dabbled and dithered on the fringes of the UK folk scene for decades, and drawing on a huge repertoire, he gives performances that are rooted in a tradition of community singing and celebrating.
- Location: Orangery
- When: Friday, 1 pm
Blossom & Friends
Blossom sings songs of connection – to our Earth, to each other, to Spirit.
Having dabbled and dithered on the fringes of the UK folk scene for decades, and drawing on a huge repertoire, he gives performances that are rooted in a tradition of community singing and celebrating.
- Location: Big top
- When: Friday, 9:30 pm
Blossom's Enchantment
Blossom's Enchantment: blurring the boundaries between performance and guided visualisation.
Blossom invites you to get comfortable, close your eyes, and let the songs lead you into deeper connection.
- Location: Village hall
- When: Friday, 7 pm
Burn The Ladder
Burn the ladder is a folk musician bearing a sharp tongue and a big heart.
She combines the rich story-telling tradition of folk music with the wit and sensibilities of a protest singer in a bitter-sweet catalog of hope, sorrow, joy and fury.
- Location: Village hall
- When: Friday, 8 pm
Chexy XY
Chexy XY is a rapper and genre-bending beatmaker based out of Cardiff.
Merging sounds from the depths of old YouTube with funky bass synths and orchestral instruments, Chexy (/ˈkɛksi/) provides an iconic performance with her wails and fiery stage presence.
Her set will include her first Welsh language song, WAHWAHWAH.
- Location: Big top
- When: Saturday, 11 pm
Crazy Old Queen
Performer and creator with a passion for amateur empowerment and public space.
Trained across Brazil and Europe in dance, theater, and singing, they now make participative, in situ work that transforms strangers into fellow protagonists.
- Location: Village hall
- When: Friday, 7:30 pm
Deedee Licious
Deedee Licious is a London-based non-binary DJ who is as passionate about music as about community building.
With 15 years of djing behind them, Deedee’s eclectic sonic signature spans the electronic music spectrum and beyond. Deedee is part of FLINTA party Gaytorade and also throws free parties under London’s skies.
- Location: Dance tent
- When: Saturday, 11 pm
Dippy Bamba
Travelling in their home on wheels from Bournemouth, DiPPYBaMbA is the sound of Tribal Trance Regge Folk fusion, singing earthy songs to connect all beings with good vibration.
They'll be raising the energy, getting you all dancing, and encouraging sing alongs with ecstatic mantras.
Their songs rise toward themes of love for all animals, taking care of our earth and being more loving towards ourselves and fellow humans!
- Location: Big top
- When: Saturday, 8 pm
DJ the brain
DJ the_brain ... rumoured as the brainier half of DJ's 'Dan and the brain'...
Expect music to dance to from House to Electro, and techno to disco...
- Location: Dance tent
- When: Saturday, 8 pm
djMotherBrown
Born in small-town New Zealand, music shaped my early life before moving to the UK in 1993 with an HIV diagnosis.
After years lost to meth addiction, rehab in 2016 changed everything. I found healing, guitar, and community through Radical Faeries and Queer Spirit Festival — now performing, DJing, and co-leading Stewards with gratitude.
- Location: Dance tent
- When: Sunday, 8 pm
Dyke Mother
Dyke Mother is an emerging post punk quartet from Bristol.
We dabble in experimental grunge, politically engaged spoken word, dark gothic melodies and with thrashy doom sounds.
Lets take back our streets, own our space, shake of the daily grind and catapult ourselves into new futures. Let's create a new world together, let dyke mother take the heavyness of your heart.
- Location: Big top
- When: Saturday, 9 pm
Faye Patton
Jazz artist Faye Patton presents her Queer Spirit solo programme - red hot 'n' smooth sounds with a vintage twist and a contemporary, electric vibe.
Sultry vocals, glittering guitar magic, retro pagan rock and some Prince tunes! A powerful presence with an inspirational LGBTQ+ flavour rarely seen in jazz.
- Location: Village hall
- When: Saturday, 7 pm
Fyah
Drawn to the flow state of movement and dancing with fire, they bring a captivating fire performance rooted in rhythm, presence, and play. [Outdoors]
On another night at Queer Spirit, they'll take to the decks with hypnotic beats, tribal grooves, ambient textures, and ecstatic rhythms.
- Location: Outdoors
- When: Thursday, 8 pm
- Location: Outdoors
- When: Friday, 9:30 pm
- Location: Dance tent
- When: Friday, 11 pm
Gloria Gayer
Info soon...
- Location: Dance tent
- When: Saturday, 10 pm
Great Aunt Tranni
Great Aunt Tranni is VERY Disappointed.
Like the eccentric in the family who swears through Sunday lunch, Nicola Beck's show is packed with amused disdain, sharp wit, and a few choice expletives.
Woker than Gen Alpha, Great Aunt Tranni is very disappointed indeed, and keen to tell you why
- Location: Village hall
- When: Friday, 8:30 pm
Great Aunt Tranni
Great Aunt Tranni is VERY Disappointed.
Like the eccentric in the family who swears through Sunday lunch, Nicola Beck's show is packed with amused disdain, sharp wit, and a few choice expletives.
Woker than Gen Alpha, Great Aunt Tranni is very disappointed indeed, and keen to tell you why
- Location: Big top
- When: Friday, 10pm (part of adult cabaret)
Handsome Vandal
Handsome Vandal is a self-taught, trans, queer musician delivering an acoustic folk set of love, lust, loss, and protest.
Music has always been his way of making sense of and peace with life.
Expect emotional and honest storytelling from intimate warmth to gritty and raw.
- Location: TBC
- When: TBC
Henry Everett - Mad Spirits: The tales of Robin Goodfellow
Britains most notorious Faerie, Robin Goodfellow born of a human mother, and famous Faerie father, doesn't know who he is.
Come hear his tales where he discovers his powers.
- Location: Big top
- When: Friday, 9:00 pm
Henry Everett - The Great Pan is dead!
Ancient Greek God of pasture, wild creatures, and solitary places... 'The Great God Pan' was creator of terror and panic and yet, was protector and seducer.
Pan came to embody the spirit of the wild, and yet, Pan is one of the few Greek Gods to have died.
- Location: Village hall
- When: Saturday, 7:30 pm
Kimwei
“Do you see me?” asks Kimwei—because you can’t be what you can’t see.
A queer nonbinary singer‑songwriter sharing honest and beautiful folk songs, holding a space where everyone has the right to be who they are, because nothing’s binary.
- Location: Village hall
- When: Sunday, 8 pm
Leopard Zeppard
Leopard Zeppard. a quiet phenomenon. A queer animist. A lifetime of songs.
Sharing the breath of the trees. poking at the wiles of life on the edge. keeping love alive and laughter out loud.
A rare chance to share time with our generous, thoughtful and heartfelt performer from short mountain, tn.
- Location: Village hall
- When: Thursday, 9:30 pm
- Location: Orangery
- When: Friday, 3:00 pm
Nina Love
Nina Love is a House & Garage DJ from Somerset who loves to bring uplifting, funky and soulful vibes!
With a preference for the Underground sound, expect to be taken on a journey of discovery, with the odd familiar vocal thrown in.
- Location: Dance tent
- When: Friday, 9 pm
Octavia Holyoake
Octavia uses deep tradition to speak with an uncertain present, flush with fingerpicked folkish stylings.
- Location: Village hall
- When: Friday, 9 pm
Open Mic
Open to all - sing, dance, perform...
- Location: Village hall
- When: Friday, Saturday & Saturday, 1 pm
Pan
Born in small-town New Zealand, music shaped my early life before moving to the UK in 1993 with an HIV diagnosis. After years lost to meth addiction, rehab in 2016 changed everything.
I found healing, guitar, and community through Radical Faeries and Queer Spirit Festival — now performing, DJing, and co-leading Stewards with gratitude.
- Location: Village hall
- When: Saturday, 9 pm
Penelope Vivero
Penelope Vivero offers healing folk music woven from voice, guitar, rhythm, and lived experience.
Rooted in animism, queerness, and heartfelt connection, her performances invite reflection, participation, grief, joy, and liberation.
Songs emerge as offerings for revolutionary times, encouraging deeper connection to nature, community, and the wild soul within us all.
- Location: Village hall
- When: Thursday, 9:30 pm
- Location: Orangery
- When: Saturday, 1:00 pm
Plaster Cast Theatre
A visceral, immersive dance into our prehistoric past that questions modern obsessions with "human nature" and who gets to define it.
Dance with us into the collective unconscious and out to the astral plane: where our human instincts for Power and Pleasure spin and cavort to wreak havoc on Earth.
- Location: Big top
- When: Friday, 8 pm
Qweaver wordweaver
Qweaver is a queer magical being, community maker, poet. Poetry has ever served magic - words are spells and poems enactments.
They relish poetry’s subversion, its dances between meaning and mystery, how it connects minds and hearts.
They have been performing for over 10 years and have published 3 books.
- Location: Village hall
- When: Saturday, 8:30 pm
Shamanic Spice
Ritual performance celebrating The Aries Saturn Return of the SPICE GIRLS, Spanish trans icon goddess honorary spice girl Cristina "LA VENENO" Ortiz, and the energy of all of the Archetypal Saturn in Aries Lilith beings that forged SHAMANIC SPICE
- Location: Big top
- When: Friday, 10pm (part of adult cabaret)
Siobhán Fergus Evans
Siobhán Fergus Evans is an award-winning trans writer and performer who deftly weaves poetry into tapestries saturated with lived experience and half-imagined fantastical landscapes.
Her work blurs the lines between autobiography and imagination to create modern folk-tales about displacement, queerness, belonging, and the uncertain territory of what might have been.
- Location: Village hall
- When: Sunday, 8:30 pm
Siobhán Fergus Evans
Siobhán Fergus Evans is an award-winning trans writer and performer who deftly weaves poetry into tapestries saturated with lived experience and half-imagined fantastical landscapes.
Her work blurs the lines between autobiography and imagination to create modern folk-tales about displacement, queerness, belonging, and the uncertain territory of what might have been.
- Location: Big top
- When: Friday, 10pm (part of adult cabaret)
Squirm the Worm
Squirm the Worm – an un(der)earthly education.
Squirm the Worm is a little creature with a big mission: experience their un(der)earthly life and powers, queerness and essential entanglement in the ecosystem, and learn how humans dismiss yet exploit them.
Squirming hilariously, they deliver a message of beneficial and intrinsic possibility for all to thrive naturally.
- Location: Outdoors
- When: Friday, 3 pm
The Pink Notes
Do you love Blues music but can't stand those heteronormative, misogynistic lyrics? Never fear! The PinkNotes are here to bring a rainbow to your blues skies.
We “got woke this mornin” with hits like I Can't Find No Queer Blues and There's an LGBTQ for Ma' Lovin'.
So get your dancin' shoes.
- Location: Big top
- When: Saturday, 10 pm
The Queer Fool
There is a place on the edge where we can play' ('Queer Deity, Sacred Slut' by Al Head).
The Queer Fool plays many different parts of themselves in this unique form of improvised theatre.
They will give their own perspective on festival events and explore themes that have arisen.
- Location: Village hall
- When: Sunday, 7:30 pm
Thunder & Nuisance
Al Head (they/them) is a queer, nonbinary singer/songwriter.
They sing songs about lgbtqi+ community, solidarity and experience, and songs about land connection and the pagan wheel of the year.
They are an environmental, disability and lgbtqi+ activist, cocreated Queer Spirit Festival and are currently organising performance for Trans Pride Exeter.
- Location: Big top
- When: Sunday, 9 pm
Toulouse Lost-Track
A journey of getting lost and being found.
Trying to find where he is supposed to be, Toulouse got lost along the way – or has he? (Re)Turning to nature, adventuring through different landscapes, being-shapes and soul-aches, he discovers the courage to let go, trust his senses and ask queer community for help.
A journey of improvisation and transformation.
- Location: Big top
- When: Sunday, 8 pm
