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The Rheingans Sisters make playful, powerful and richly connecting music that is wholly contemporary while deeply anchored in folk traditions.
Over the last five years, with three critically acclaimed albums, a BBC Radio 2 Folk Award nomination for 'Best Duo/Group' in 2019 and winners of 'Best Original Track' at the awards in 2016, audiences across the UK, Europe and Australia have been utterly captivated by their 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 improvisers, with adventurous use of fiddles, voices, banjo, bansitar, tambourin à cordes, spoken word, dancing feet and percussion.
A unique and unmissable act on the folk and world music stage, Rowan and Anna play a plethora of instruments in their live shows, many of them handmade by their luthier father Helmut Rheingans.