Fresh Thursday // The Rheingans Sisters + Amy Thatcher & Fran Knowles
Schedule
Thu Mar 09 2023 at 07:00 pm
Location
Cobalt Studios CIC | Newcastle Upon Tyne, EN
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FRESH THURSDAY is a regular event showcasing exciting new music alongside lots of candles, board games and a home-cooked slap up dinner. If you have a nut allergy or are coeliac please choose the ticketing option that states the correct dietary requirement. Booking well in advance for this event is really helpful for us to know how many people we're catering for!------------
‘ The Rheingans Sisters are unique; their songs and tunes are special, completely absorbing, alluring, simple yet totally complicated ’ - Folk Wales Online
Over the last five years, three critically acclaimed albums and a BBC Radio 2 Folk Award win for 'Best Original Track' in 2016, audiences across the UK, Europe and Australia have been utterly captivated by The Rheingans Sisters' 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.
A unique and unmissable act on the folk and world music stage today, Rowan and Anna play a plethora of instruments in their live shows, many of them handmade by their luthier father Helmut Rheingans who is based in their native Peak District home.
The Rheingans Sisters released their critically acclaimed fourth album ‘Receiver’ in 2020 on the Bendigedig Label.
‘ Scandi-noir, but tinged with joy and avant-garde trad ’ - SONGLINES
‘ Brilliant complexity and sparkling diversity on show ’ - FOLK RADIO UK
‘ Gorgeously seasonal ’ - MARK RADCLIFFE, BBC RADIO 2 FOLK SHOW
www.rheinganssisters.co.uk
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Amy Thatcher & Fran Knowles
Brand new accordion and percussion duo from Newcastle, Thatcher and Knowles defy the preconceptions of what their instruments can do, breaking with tradition while tactfully adopting it as a foundation for playful experimentation.
Their live show is one of both raucous energy and sympathetic intensity, incorporating drums, synths, keys and vocals into an unapologetic brew of colourful and creative composition.
Their debut album ‘Emergency of the Female Kind’ showcases a spectrum of human-ness rarely captured in just 46 minutes and the pair's undaunted attitude to kicking off a genre revolution.
https://www.atfk.co.uk/
https://amythatcherfranknowles.bandcamp.com/album/emergency-of-the-female-kind
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Where is it happening?
Cobalt Studios CIC, 10-16 Boyd Street,Newcastle upon Tyne, United KingdomEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
