Steel City Sue brings original industrial folk from her hometown Newcastle, dealt up with old time, rags, blues, and indie attitude. Think Billy Bragg meets Kirsty MacColl on a mountain backroad.

Sue self-accompanies on fiddle, banjo, guitar and single-row accordion; deftly underscoring her potent songs, which ring true for people living in exploited places, with broken hearts or just in a cheeky mood.

Steel City Sue will launch her new EP The Red Zone at the festival. Recorded in West Virginia with traditional multi-instrumentalist Ben Townsend, it springs from the same folk tradition of chronicling the times, which spans continents and generations.