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Rowan Rheingans

Award-winning folk musician, songwriter and composer Rowan Rheingans brings her courageous solo show Dispatches on the Red Dress to London.
An intimate and adventurous exploration of memory, identity, joy, sorrow, trauma-recovery, war and waltzes, Dispatches on the Red Dress tells the true story of Rowan’s German grandmother’s youth in 1940’s Germany. With genre-melding fluidity, Rowan weaves immersive storytelling around 10 new songs (Rowan won ‘Best Original Track’ at the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards in 2016 for her song Mackerel) performed live with fiddle, banjo, guitar and subtly inventive use of pre-recorded sounds.
Winner of a Fringe First Award at the Edinburgh Festival 2019. 
“Classy anti-fascist art” ⭐⭐⭐⭐ — Edinburgh Festivals Magazine 
“Sublime… celebrates family, nature and the ties that bind and goes on to pack a fierce political punch” ⭐⭐⭐⭐ — The Guardian 
“Utterly spellbinding… and as the red dress’ true origin unfolds, the revelation will leave you quietly breathless” ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ — The Scotsman 
“vivid songwriting and composing… spectacularly beautiful” — Mark Radcliffe, Radio 2



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Rowan Rheingans

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