All-female international folk quartet Anemara blends Scandinavian, Celtic and North American traditional music with fiddles, harp, cello, step dancing and singing.
Anemara play The Stables on Sunday 31 January, their first Milton Keynes date in a while. It's an all-female international folk quartet that pulls together Scandinavian, Celtic and North American traditional music, and they've got a fair bit of ground to cover on one stage: two fiddles, harp, cello, step dancing and singing. The four of them met in Glasgow back in 2018, and they describe the whole thing as a cross-cultural collaboration.
That's a polite way of saying they're bringing together traditions from across the Atlantic. The line-up is Jocelyn Pettit and Lea Kirstein from Canada, Kristina Leesik from Sweden and the UK, and Justyna Krzyżanowska from Sweden. Between them, they've picked up more than 15 awards from the Canadian Folk Music Awards, the Western Canadian Music Awards, the International Acoustic Music Awards, the Celtic Connections Danny Kyle Awards and the Zorn Folk Music Awards. One of them has also been named a Riksspelman, the Swedish folk musician title.
They've toured Sweden and the UK, played festivals like Urkult, Medeltidsveckan and Celtic Connections, and have been broadcast on Swedish National Radio P2. Their debut single is called Atlantic Schottis, and the set will draw on that mix of traditional and original material they've been working on since they first got together. The show is in Stage 2, The Stables' second performance space, which holds about 80 people and keeps things intimate.
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It starts at 8:45pm on Sunday 31 January, and tickets are £15.50 including the booking fee.
