Folk Festival Countdown: Ghost Bees

Most of us don’t have spooky aunties who sing songs about monsters and memories and spells and lost love, but I think we all have a pretty good idea what those kind of aunties would be like: they’d be like Romy and Sari Lightman.

The Lightmans are twin sisters from Nova Scotia who sing nostalgically eerie tunes under the name Ghost Bees. Ghost Bee’s spooky folk would make a great accompaniment to the work of Roald Dahl or Edward Gorey (or if you want to get arty-historical, Odilon Redon). This is music best heard at a gently-haunted Renaissance fair by a crashing seashore. But it’ll also be pretty good Saturday night at 6:30, when the Bees play a teaser set at the Folk Festival.

(The Bees also play Saturday afternoon; check your Folk Fest guide for times and stage details.)