From his home in Ramsgate, England the art pop performer Patrick Wolf tells PureHoney via Zoom about the origin of his versatile musical influences. “My father was a jazz musician. My mother was always playing music heavy on storytelling like Leonard Cohen, Judy Collins, or Kate Bush.” Wolf himself was a literal choir boy who performed in front of a Pope, but then his voice broke and he started listening to rock ’n’ roll. “That’s when I started to write music.”

As a multi-instrumentalist Wolf got to play with many of his musical heroes, joining Patti Smith’s band as a fiddle player for a decade and opening for John Cale whose viola playing in Velvet Underground greatly influenced Wolf. As a solo musician he yearns for a musical form of self-expression that will have him performing in Florida for the first time ever on June 13 at Churchill’s Pub.

“I’ve never played Miami, but I went crazy there for a few days for a wedding. It was the most chaotic three days of my life. So I’m glad to go back with my music and sobriety to make amends.”

He performs as a sort of one man band making songs out of everything from a piano, viola, a dulcimer, and harpsichord along with a couple rarer instruments like the chromaverb that plays with electromagnetic frequencies and a stringed instrument of his own design called the kantalyre. On stage Wolf also also takes seriously his role as a storyteller, giving insight into the origins of many of the songs audiences will hear.

Much of the music will stem from his latest full length album, 2025’s Crying the Neck. “The album was meant to immortalize my mother; it was a tribute to her,” he says. “I’d always stayed away from folk music. Now at 42, my circle of musicians come from that world. I always played fiddle so it makes sense, but I never considered myself a folkie. But the genre is now more esoteric. I guess we become our parents as we get older.”

Patrick Wolf performs 8pm Saturday, June 13 at Churchill’s Pub in Miami. patrickwolf.com ~ David Rolland