WHO: Rachel Unthank & The Winterset, opener Devon Sproule
WHERE: World Cafe Live - Downstairs, 3025 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104
WHEN: Sunday, September 28th.
Doors @ 6PM
Show @ 7:30PM
MORE INFO & TICKETING:
tickets.worldcafelive.com
rachelunthank.com
devonsproule.com
ARTIST BIO:
"Intimate, epic, overflowing with feeling and musical intelligence" The Independent
Mercury Prize 2008 Nominee: The Nationwide Mercury Prize is for best British or Irish album of the last 12 months.
Dancing down the leftfield and singing in their own lilting Geordie accents, Rachel Unthank & The Winterset are the "inheritors, curators and gleeful distorters" (Ian MacMillan) of Tyneside's traditions.
Elements of blues, jazz, burlesque cabaret, classical and leftfield contemporary music make their take on folk music peerless, fearless and wholeheartedly brave, winning fans as disparate as Robert Wyatt, Kate Rusby, Paul Morley, Phil Jupitus and Joan As Police Woman.
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. Described as "a bewitching, dream-like, down-to-earth masterpiece" in the Observer Music Magazine's Top 50 Albums of the 2007, The Bairns is already a classic in its own lifetime.
