The Rheingans Sisters
presented by Alan Bearman Music
After a decade releasing celebrated music (BBC Radio 2 Folk Award winners of ‘Best Original Track’ 2016 and ‘Best Group’ nominees in 2019) and touring their inimitable live show across the world, The Rheingans Sisters have just released their hotly anticipated new album Start Close In to wide critical acclaim with The Guardian declaring it “a radical leap into darkness” and awarding it the coveted Folk Album Of The Month.
The visionary duo’s 5th album and new live show is a sonic and aesthetic development, creating an even more immersive musical journey for their audience. From baroque fiddle tunes to trance beats, from metal-inspired arrangements of folk ballads to improvisations with phone voicenotes, Rowan and Anna once again create like painters; revealing in bold colours the next grounded yet soaring contribution to the sisters’ unique “avant-garde trad” (Songlines Magazine).
Influenced as ever by the past, The Rheingans Sisters’ music leans defiantly forward. With the warmth and empathy their songwriting has become well known for sounds of electric guitar and synths underpinning raw textures of fiddles, feet and medieval bass drones of the tambourin à cordes, The Rheingans Sisters remain one of the most visionary acts on the British folk scene today.
Age guidance: All ages (under 14s must be accompanied by an adult)
Running time: 2 x 45 mins (no support)
“a radical leap into darkness”
“Gorgeous, vivid songwriting”
“too good not to play”
