The Rheingans Sisters with Emily Portman and Mikey Kenney

Presented by: The Choicey Club

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0	LIVERPOOL: Ullet Road Unitarian Church
P	Saturday 25th April, 2020
N	7:00pm

Event information

Mikey Kenney and Emily Portman present...

THE RHEINGANS SISTERS
www.therheinganssisters.co.uk
in the beautiful setting that is Ullet Road Unitarian Church, Liverpool.

The Rheingans Sisters make playful, powerful and richly connecting music that is wholly contemporary while deeply anchored in folk traditions. The award-winning multi-instrumentalists, composers and folk scholars were nominated for 'Best Duo/Group' at 2019 BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards.

Over the last five years, audiences across the UK, Europe and Australia have been captivated by the duos very special live performances. Drawing on their pan-European musical scholarship and their spirited mission to make connections between the music of different geographical roots, they have developed a rich artistic approach to the deconstruction and reimagining of traditional music alongside their own beguiling compositions. Performing live, the sisters are inimitable; full-hearted performers and spontaneous, on-stage improvisors, with adventurous use of fiddles, voices, banjo, bansitar, tambourin à cordes, spoken word, dancing feet and percussion.

The Rheingans Sisters will release their much anticipated fourth album in Summer 2020 on Bendigedig (ARC Music).

Also performing on the night...
EMILY PORTMAN
www.emilyportman.co.uk

Emily Portman is a singer, writer and concertina player hailed as ‘one of the new British folk scene’s most beguiling presences’ (Uncut).Emily won BBC Radio 2 Folk Award for Best Original Song for ‘Hatchings’, an accolade that reflects her power to conjure darkly surreal netherworlds where folklore and myth collide with urban landscapes. Her latest original album Coracle, described as ‘a marvellous, original work’ by The Observer, received high accolades and has placed Emily on the fROOTs cover for the second time as well as receiving airplay on Jarvis Cocker’s Sunday Service on BBC 6 Music. Emily has enjoyed widespread international radio play, performed live sessions for BBC Radio, reached mojo’s top ten album list, and toured extensively throughout the UK and Europe, both with acclaimed musicians Lucy Farrell and Rachel Newton and with her six-piece band The Coracle Band. Emily also performs with collaborative traditional song band The Furrow Collective, BBC Folk Award Winners for Best Band 2017.

MIKEY KENNEY
www.mikeykenney.co.uk

Mikey Kenney is a fiddle player and balladeer from Liverpool, whose playing is steeped in both English and Irish traditional music. Well known as a constant traveller and collaborator, Mikey is a member of the acclaimed Robert Burns' celebration Band of Burns and works regularly with Italian legend Vinicio Capossela. Mikey’s new solo album, The Reverie Road, allows the listener a dreamy, intriguing journey to quell the world-weary soul and transport it to another time and place. Inspired by his home city of Liverpool’s haunts, his time travelling and working in Italy, traditional fiddle music, poetry and lands farther afield, this album is at the forefront of creative and imaginative music-making through melody and rhyme. “A singular and inspiring talent…” FRoots Magazine