The Rheingans Sisters

Doors 19:00 Show starts 20:00

Ear trumpet music presents: The Rheingans Sisters

"Joyous - take a bow” - MOJO
“A radical leap into darkness” - The Guardian, Folk Album of the Month

 Previous winners of BBC Radio 2 Folk Award for ‘Best Original Track’ and nominees for ‘Best Band’, with their uniquely blended sound of fiddles, voices, feet, banjos, guitar, synths and the powerful bass drones of the medieval tambourin à cordes, The Rheingans Sisters are one of the most visionary acts on the British folk scene today.

The Rheingans Sisters’ last album Start Close In received enthusiastic critical acclaim, celebrated at #2 in The Guardian’s Top 10 Albums of 2024: “it’s clear that the Rheingans Sisters have made their boldest album yet”. MOJO Magazine called it “joyous” and Trad Folk described it as “experimental and brave and genuinely magical”.
“A radical leap” - The Guardian

Produced by New York based Adam Pietrykowski (whose genre-diverse work spans rock, contemporary classical and prog folk) the visionary duo’s current work is “wildly expressive; at the forefront of the recent upsurge in experimental, drone-led folk” (KLOF). The sisters’ live show is an immersive and uplifting musical journey. Taking in baroque fiddle tunes and trance beats, metal-inspired arrangements of traditional ballads and improvisations with voicenotes, Rowan and Anna once again make music like painters; revealing in bold colours the next soaring chapter in their unmistakable brand of avant-garde trad, blending ancient song and universal stories with future imaginings, dystopias and dreams.

“Gorgeous, vivid songwriting” - Mark Radcliffe, BBC Radio
“A meditative look at the world around us” - Morning Star
"It’s the Rheingans Sisters: expect the unexpected” - Songlines Magazine
"Experimental and brave and genuinely magical” - Trad Folk “Too good not to play” - Ian Lynch (Lankum) Fire Draw Near