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The Unthanks and The Bevvy Sisters
Old Fruitmarket
Please Note: This is a past event.
December 2010, when The Unthanks originally premièred tonight’s set at London’s Union Chapel, wasn’t the first time they’d covered songs by Robert Wyatt and Antony Hegarty, (of Mercury-winners Antony & the Johnsons): beautiful interpretations of Wyatt’s Sea Song and Hegarty’s For Today I Am A Boy have previously featured alongside Rachel and Becky Unthank’s bewitching treatments of traditional Northumbrian ballads. Here, though, with their full 10-piece band, Hegarty’s fellow Mercury nominees devote their whole set to these two richly singular artists, further consolidating The Unthanks’ A-list stature in British contemporary folk. “The songs sound simultaneously as old as the hills and unique and new.” (Guardian)
Also leading the field in spine-tingling female harmonies are Scotland’s Bevvy Sisters, featuring Heather Macleod, Kaela Rowan and Roberta Pia’s radiant frontline vocals over ultra-tasteful yet tautly muscular backing from guitarist David Donnelly, bassist Emma Smith and drummer James Mackintosh, in a lovingly configured array of vintage Americana and classy originals.
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Past Event
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