Rosa Rebecka is currently touring her one-woman show Travel’s With My Grandmothers’ Guitar which tells the story of her great grandmother’s guitar, an extraordinary 110 year-old instrument that she has recently inherited. Storytelling, newly composed songs and family favourites, heartfelt singing and numerous instruments tell a universal story of love and loss spanning four generations. The concert at St Anne’s Arts Centre in Barnstaple on Saturday will feature original acoustic material and Swedish folk music, performed with warmth and passion on voice, guitar, and other instruments... beautiful music in an ancient setting.
Born to a Swedish mother and an American father, Rosa Rebecka grew up among the lakes and forests of southern Sweden. Coming from a musical family, she sang with her parents and siblings from an early age. She began to write songs and poetry at the age of five, and later learned to play the flute and guitar. She left Sweden for Devon in 1998 and spent three years at Dartington studying music, composing songs and playing with her fellow students.
Not only an outstanding vocalist but also a truly original and innovative songwriter, Rosa Rebecka continues to produce finely crafted songs which mix haunting narrative storytelling with a playful lyricism and sublime musicality. While her Swedish roots are never far below the surface, and she acknowledges the folk tradition of her adopted land, she has a timeless sensibility all her own. Her music owes as much to female singer-songwriters of her parents’ generation, such as Joni Mitchell, as it does to the centuries-old troubadours she loves.
Rosa’s performances are sometimes unusual, often intimate, always memorable. She writes for a bewildering array of instruments, which she sometimes makes her audience play for her. She loves to engage with an audience, whether drawing them into a story with song or getting them clapping and stamping to the exhilarating rhythm of a Swedish polska. “I think being a performer is an art in and of itself,” she says “it’s in meeting with an audience that the songs come to life.”
Tickets are £8 in advance from the Heritage Centre shop on the Strand in Barnstaple or from 01271 373003. Also www.ticketsource.co.uk/StAnnesArtsCentre
There isn’t a bar but you can bring along your own drinks.
Born to a Swedish mother and an American father, Rosa Rebecka grew up among the lakes and forests of southern Sweden. Coming from a musical family, she sang with her parents and siblings from an early age. She began to write songs and poetry at the age of five, and later learned to play the flute and guitar. She left Sweden for Devon in 1998 and spent three years at Dartington studying music, composing songs and playing with her fellow students.
Not only an outstanding vocalist but also a truly original and innovative songwriter, Rosa Rebecka continues to produce finely crafted songs which mix haunting narrative storytelling with a playful lyricism and sublime musicality. While her Swedish roots are never far below the surface, and she acknowledges the folk tradition of her adopted land, she has a timeless sensibility all her own. Her music owes as much to female singer-songwriters of her parents’ generation, such as Joni Mitchell, as it does to the centuries-old troubadours she loves.
Rosa’s performances are sometimes unusual, often intimate, always memorable. She writes for a bewildering array of instruments, which she sometimes makes her audience play for her. She loves to engage with an audience, whether drawing them into a story with song or getting them clapping and stamping to the exhilarating rhythm of a Swedish polska. “I think being a performer is an art in and of itself,” she says “it’s in meeting with an audience that the songs come to life.”
Tickets are £8 in advance from the Heritage Centre shop on the Strand in Barnstaple or from 01271 373003. Also www.ticketsource.co.uk/StAnnesArtsCentre
There isn’t a bar but you can bring along your own drinks.
Rosa Rebecka
St Anne's Arts and Community Centre, Barnstaple on Saturday 12 March 2016
Doors Open at 7:30pm Music Starts at 8:00pm
Ticket Price: £8.00* via www.ticketsource.co.uk/StAnnesartscentre
*small booking admin fee of 50p applied by the website
St Anne's Arts and Community Centre, Barnstaple on Saturday 12 March 2016
Doors Open at 7:30pm Music Starts at 8:00pm
Ticket Price: £8.00* via www.ticketsource.co.uk/StAnnesartscentre
*small booking admin fee of 50p applied by the website
Or can be purchased in person from Barnstaple Heritage Centre open Tuesday – Saturday 9.30am – 4.30pm or 01271 373003 without a booking fee Or on the door for £9
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