FIDDLE-SINGING folk siblings The Rheingans Sisters feature live in Ulverston in a concert for Furness Tradition.

The highly-regarded young pair perform in the Supper Room at the Coronation Hall on Friday October 21, from 8pm.

Rowan and Anna grew up in the Peak District, surrounded by traditional music and encouraged to pick up the fiddle by their violin-maker father from an early age.

Both professional musicians, Rowan is well known on the English folk music scene as part of hugely popular trio Lady Maisery as well as for her work with Nancy Kerr and The Sweet Visitor Band.

She also composes for theatre and is part of the Songs of Separation super-group alongside Eliza Carthy and Karine Polwart, amongst others.

Anna lives in Toulouse, in southern France, where she is a much sought-after fiddle player and teacher of french music traditions, having gained a first class diploma from the Conservatioire Occitan.

Both sisters have also spent a significant amount of time studying fiddle music in Scandinavia and pull a range of influences from both the northern and southern European fiddle traditions into their own compositions and arrangements.

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The Rheingans Sisters won the award for Best Original Track at this year's BBC Radio 2 Folk Award Winners, where they were also nominated for Best Newcomer.

They in fact began to make an impact in the folk music press with the release of their debut album, Glad Gold Hearts, in 2013, which saw them land two Songlines Music Awards nominations, and their second album, Already Home, recorded over just five days in a remote forest studio in mid-Wales, quickly caused a stir when it was released in November 2015.

Material from both albums will feature in the set-list for the Ulverston concert, part of the wider Furness Tradition programme.

Tickets are available online from Furness Tradition and from the Coronation Hall box office.