LANCASTER: LAWM @ Yorkshire House

TUE 9TH DEC, 2008 7.30pm

LAWM presents Rachel Unthank and the Winterset

Nominated for The Mercury Music Prize 2008...

Nominated for Best Group, Best Live Act and Best Album in the forthcoming BBC Folk Awards

Winners of the BBC Horizon Award at the BBC Folk Awards 2008

Forging links between the folk worlds old, new and other, Rachel and her set have blown a refreshing north-easterly gale through traditional English song, casting it in an endlessly inventive and playful new mould. The band, now four, have cemented a reputation for being a truly entertaining and breathtaking live act. With a strong emphasis on self-penned songs, all four girls now take lead vocal responsibilities, joyfully remodel traditional material and delight in covering songs from unlikely sources such as Antony & The Johnsons. Performing without a drummer, they play piano, fiddle and voice to tell their stories of small town drama, epic tragedies, old traditions and new love.

The collective background in traditional music of Rachel, Becky, Niopha and Stef is the anchor that affords them their sense of adventure. They have the kind of deep understanding of English folk music it’s only possible to have by being born into it, Rachel Unthank & The Winterset subvert folk music with love and authority. Fans as disparate as Robert Wyatt, Kate Rusby, Paul Morley, Tracey Thorn, Nic Jones, Phil Jupitus and Joan As Policewoman have joined the chorus of adulation from the press. Debut album Cruel Sister won Mojo Folk Album of the Year, and new album The Bairns has been described as "utterly gorgeous" by The Guardian as "a work of towering quality" by The Telegraph, and as ‘Intimate, epic, overflowing with feeling and musical intelligence’ by The Independent.

A unique chance to catch the band in a small venue - tickets are limited to 100.

Support comes from the incomparable Dan Haywood's New Hawks and Leeds based folk chanteuse Fran Rodgers.

Further information available at www.lawm.co.uk

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