Event 246
The Unthanks
In concert
– Telegraph Stage
The Mercury Prize-nominated folk stars play Hay with their new album Mount The Air. The Unthanks is a family affair for Tyneside sisters Rachel and Becky Unthank. Rachel is married to pianist, producer, arranger and composer Adrian McNally. Using the traditional music of the North East of England as a starting point, the influence of Steve Reich, Miles Davis, Sufjan Stevens, Robert Wyatt, Antony & The Johnsons, King Crimson and Tom Waits can be heard in the band’s seven albums to date.
Definable only by their restless, peerless eccentricity, The Unthanks see folk music less as a style of music and more as an oral history that offers perspective on our own time. Staunch traditionalism and sonic adventure may seem like polar opposites, yet they are easy bedfellows in the gentle hands of The Unthanks. ‘Rachel and Becky’s voices are one of the true wonders of 21st-century music’ – NME.
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