Topette!! occupy a unique position in the current folk and traditional music landscape. A collaboration between five highly-regarded individuals from two countries, England and France, they’re the kind of perfect idea that, if they didn’t already exist, someone would have to invent. Yet Topette!! are no mere ‘project’ band. They’re a fully-formed and functioning group of the kind that rarely comes around nowadays. Topette!! are a true collective of uninhibited musical adventurers playing self-penned and traditional music from anywhere, with a winning mix of bonhomie and grit.

The Topette!! ethos is to create exciting music that sounds as good from an armchair as it does in the middle of a packed festival dance tent.

Artists:
Andy Cutting: diatonic button accordion & melodeon
James Delarre – violin & viola
Julien Cartonnet – French bagpipes, & tenor banjo
Barnaby Stradling-acoustic bass guitar
Tania Buisse- bodhrán