What does it mean to build a life on friendship? To trust that the people who once knew you as a teenager will still know you when the world grows louder, heavier, harder to navigate? Heide Peverelle, Jeanie Pilkington, and Gracie Sinclair have found their answer in Folk Bitch Trio. For them, friendship is not a backdrop—it is the melody, the reason, the thread stitching every song together.

Now Would Be A Good Time doesn't sound like a debut—it sounds like three friends talking late into the night, with guitars nearby.  One moment, they are laughing at themselves—cracking jokes about physics innuendo or millennial self-help mantras. The next, they are dissecting heartbreaks and humiliations so sharply that the wound becomes visible again. Together, they create space for contradictions: solemn and ridiculous, wounded and defiant, devastating and funny. Isn’t that what friendship really is? The willingness to sit in the wreckage together, to say, “Let’s make something out of this mess.”

Each member brings a different orbit—Pilkington’s folk lineage, Peverelle’s hand-made artistry, Sinclair’s gothic theatricality—but when their voices meet, those orbits collapse into one gravity. The harmonies are a testament to instinct, the kind that comes only from years of growing alongside each other. To hear them is to overhear a bond made audible.

And while folk music is often treated like a sacred artifact—something you hush yourself to approach—Folk Bitch Trio remind us that it can be irreverent, biting, and mischievous too. Because life, especially in your early twenties, isn’t tidy or reverent. It’s motel televisions flickering, crushes gone sideways, the impossible comedy of getting broken up with at someone’s one-woman show. It’s absurdity braided with grief—and who better than your friends to turn that into song?

Maybe that’s what Now Would Be A Good Time is really asking us: how do we carry on when love falters, when the future feels unsure, when the present burns too brightly to hold? The answer, at least here, is simple. You do it together.

This fall, Folk Bitch Trio bring that answer with them on their first North American headline tour. But before the stage lights and the long drives, they’ve shared this photo diary—a reminder that friendship, in all its contradictions, is the music that sustains us.

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See Folk Bitch Trio Live:

Fri. Nov. 7 - Washington, DC @ Songbyrd

Sun. Nov. 9 - Philadelphia, PA @ PhilaMOCA

Tue. Nov. 11 - New York, NY@ Baby's All Right $

Thu. Nov. 13 - Montreal, QC @ Toscadura $

Fri. Nov. 14 - Toronto, ON @ Sound Garage $

Sun. Nov. 16 - Chicago, IL @ Schubas Tavern $

Tue. Nov. 18 - Seattle @ Sunset Tavern $

Wed. Nov. 19 - Portland, OR @ Show Bar $

Fri. Nov. 21 - San Francisco, CA @ Cafe Du Nord $

Sat. Nov. 22 - Los Angeles, CA @ Scribble $

Mon. Nov. 24 - Pioneertown, CA @ Pappy & Harriet's $

Wed. Nov. 26 - Winnipeg, MB @ The Park Theatre @

Fri. Nov. 28 - Regina, SK @ The Exchange @

Sat. Nov. 29 - Saskatoon, SK @ Coors Event Centre @

Sun. Nov. 30 - Edmonton, AB @ Midway Music Hall @

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$ = w/ Alex Amen

@ = w/ Foxwarren

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