Contemporary folk and spoken word project by Em Swift, exploring grief, community and transformation, with support from Famous Red Tights.
Rootweave plays The Rising Sun Arts Centre on Friday 20 November, with doors opening at 20:00. Rootweave is the creative project of Brighton-based multi-instrumentalist and wordsmith Em Swift, who blends contemporary folk with invocation-like spoken word. Her influences range from Celtic trad to strings metal and Italian folk-pop, and her raw lyrics and voice thread together stories of grief, community, ancestral reconnection, deep time, change and liberation, carrying listeners through what she calls this age of collapse and transformation. Fans have cited Kae Tempest, Climbing Poe Tree, La Nina and Grace Petrie as similar artists.
Opening the night is Famous Red Tights, a solo folk artist focusing on fingerpicking, illustrative narration and the folkish revival, drawing on local music and artists such as Pentangle. Between the two, the evening covers a fair bit of ground: the fingerstyle folk of the support act and the spoken-word-infused folk of the main set.
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The Rising Sun Arts Centre is at 30 Silver Street, Reading, RG1 2ST. Doors open at 20:00 on Friday 20 November.
