The Pegwells are a band of folk playing the old time tunes of the Appalachian mountains. The band was formed in 2021 by Bianca Wilson (banjos) and Rebekah Bouche (guitars) as a way to claim space in a scene that marginalises non-male and non-white people. A year later they were joined by DIY/punk scene legend Ray Aggs (fiddle).

 

We're here to expand ingrained ideas of who this music belongs to and why; highlighting and dismantling the erasure of black contribution to traditional banjo and fiddle music.

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We're on a mission to embody a fuller, more honest history, that tracks the heritage of these tunes back to West Africa as well as here to the British Isles.

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Through this act of reclamation, our aim is to re-establish this music we love as a site and means of radical inclusion. Folk for the folk.