Free Concert • Rachel Sumner & Traveling Light w/ Ash & Eric

Harvest Roots Recording and Ash & Eric present:

Join us at The Creative Hub (653 Main St. Worcester, MA) for intimate performances of songs & stories from nationally-touring singer-songwriters, with your favorite local acts opening the shows!

Please reserve your free ticket here on Eventbrite, as the concerts are limited to 40 attendees.

Fresh off a first place win at the 2025 Telluride Bluegrass Festival band competition, Rachel Sumner & Traveling Light have been captivating audiences throughout the northeast. With songs as sweet and biting as the nectar and venom in her voice, Sumner's lyric-forward writing and penchant for snaking chord progressions demand something far beyond folk conventions, highlighting the acrobatic range of her brilliant bandmates Kat Wallace (fiddle) and Mike Siegel (upright bass).Sumner is no stranger to the stage. She spent her early career on the bluegrass circuit, singing and writing with the genre-bending roots group Twisted Pine. Since setting out on her own, Sumner's songs have been critically acclaimed: winning the 2021 John Lennon Award in the folk category for her song "Radium Girls (Curie Eleison);" earning a spot in the Kerrville New Folk Competition; and being chosen four consecutive years as one of the top Massachusetts entries in NPR’s Tiny Desk Competition. Rachel Sumner & Traveling Light released their debut LP in the summer of 2022 to critical acclaim.

https://rachelsumnermusic.com/

Ash & Eric open the show [https://www.ashandericmusic.com]

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Thank you to

• Worcester Arts Council
• Massachusetts Cultural Council
• Joseph's Barber Styling

for their generous support of this concert series.

This program is supported in part by a grant from the Worcester Arts Council, a local agency, which is supported by the Mass Cultural Council, a state agency.

Host or Publisher Ash & Eric