Rachel Unthank & The Winterset

"intimate, epic and overflowing with musical intelligence" The Independent

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Big changes are afoot!

The Unthanks
Here's The Tender Coming

A new album, forty-date UK tour, an extended line-up and a name tweak for Mercury nominated Geordie pioneers... Full story »

Scottish Mini Tour Announced
The Isle of Mull, Inverness, The Isle of Lewis and Stirling. Not your average tour! More of a summer jaunt really, and probably the last hurrah for Stef. These dates, August 4-8th are on the tour page now.

"They might not end up being the best selling all-girl British group of all time, but they're well on their way to being the most charismatic and imaginative" Paul Morley, Sunday Telegraph

"once in a blue moon type of every now and again, you hear music that is so complete, so wonderful, unique and yet familiar that it stops you in your tracks. They have that blue moon magic about them, and they have it in spades" BBC Website live review

"They are like the morning dew that hasn't steamed off yet, they are fresh and new and I really don't think they know how good they are" Robert Wyatt

"The Bairns is a bewitching, dream-like, down-to-earth masterpiece." Observer Music Magazine Top 50 Albums of 2007 (number 17)

"Not just a great record but an important one; a classic in its own lifetime." Channel 4 Music Top Ten Albums of 2007

"the only new folk combo with a traditions-favouring spirit who would sound equally at home performing with Waterson:Carthy as they would Joanna Newsom" Time Out, London

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