The Rheingans Sisters in Grindleford
Folk on Foot
Matthew Bannister
4.8 • 526 Ratings
🗓️ 22 January 2021
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Come with us to the back garden of a house in the Peak District village of Grindleford. There, in a magical atmospheric workshop with fiddles, banjos and drying gourds hanging from the ceiling, we find the Rheingans Sisters and their Dad Helmut, who makes all their instruments. Rowan and Anna Rheingans grew up surrounded by music – and are now one of the most innovative and talented duos on the folk scene. In this episode they tell us about their creative childhood, describe how they have been influenced by French and Scandinavian music and explain their love of dancing all night.
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| 0:00.0 | We've just got off the train at Grindelford station in the Peak District and you might be able to hear the rushing of the River Derwent, |
| 0:25.6 | which is over to my left, but that is as nothing to the rushing of the water that is going down my neck |
| 0:31.6 | as a result of the rain that's falling here today. |
| 0:35.6 | And if you heard the episode we did in the Peak District with Bella Hardy, |
| 0:38.9 | you'll know that it always rains when we come here. |
| 0:41.6 | But we're not downhearted, and we're set to go for a walk |
| 0:45.2 | with two really inventive musicians. |
| 0:48.3 | Musicians. Rowan and Anna Reingans are the Reingens sisters |
| 1:12.1 | and they are multi-instrumentalists. |
| 1:14.4 | They play all sorts of instruments. |
| 1:15.9 | The banjo, the fiddle, some that I can't even put a name to. |
| 1:20.1 | They've been nominated for loads of Radio T folk awards. |
| 1:22.6 | They won Best Original Track in 2016. |
| 1:25.7 | And they make a kind of music that opens your ears |
| 1:28.3 | to a different set of possibilities, |
| 1:30.6 | a European set of possibilities in folk music. |
| 1:35.1 | It's rooted in dance, it's rooted in their own family heritage. |
| 1:40.1 | And we're going to find out more about that as we walk with them today. |
| 1:51.6 | Music and we're going to find out more about that as we walk with them today. Rowan and Anna, good morning. |
| 1:53.8 | How lovely to see you on this. |
| 1:55.3 | Well, it's a bit overcast, isn't it? |
| 1:56.8 | Yes. |
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