Alex Etchart

Inspired by one of the oldest surviving LGBTQ+ Irish folk songs, Johnny Barnes is a post-modern gender-blending storytelling project encompassing music and narrative that tells the story of a repressed lord who becomes infatuated with a common sailor and questions his own gender identity in the process.

Inspired by one of the oldest surviving LGBTQ+ Irish folk songs, Johnny Barnes is a post-modern gender-blending storytelling project encompassing music and narrative that tells the story of a repressed lord who becomes infatuated with a common sailor and questions his own gender identity in the process.