With A First Place Win in at the 2023 Thomas Point Beach Bluegrass Festival band competition,
Rachel Sumner & Traveling Light have been captivating audiences throughout the northeast.
With songs as sweet and biting as the nectar and venom in her voice,
Sumner's lyric-forward writing and..
With A First Place Win in at the 2023 Thomas Point Beach Bluegrass Festival band competition,
Rachel Sumner & Traveling Light have been captivating audiences throughout the northeast.
With songs as sweet and biting as the nectar and venom in her voice,
Sumner's lyric-forward writing and penchant for snaking chord progressions
demand something far beyond folk conventions,
highlighting the acrobatic range of her brilliant bandmates
Kat Wallace (fiddle) and Mike Siegel (upright bass).
Sumner is no stranger to the stage.
She spent her early career on the bluegrass circuit,
singing and writing with the genre-bending roots group Twisted Pine.
Since setting out on her own, Sumner's songs have been critically acclaimed:
winning the 2021 John Lennon Award in the folk category
for her song "Radium Girls (Curie Eleison);"
earning a spot in the Kerrville New Folk Competition;
and being chosen four consecutive years as one of the top
Massachusetts entries in NPR’s Tiny Desk Competition.
Rachel Sumner & Traveling Light released their debut LP
in the summer of 2022 to critical acclaim.
Rachel Sumner & Traveling Light have been captivating audiences throughout the northeast.
With songs as sweet and biting as the nectar and venom in her voice,
Sumner's lyric-forward writing and penchant for snaking chord progressions
demand something far beyond folk conventions,
highlighting the acrobatic range of her brilliant bandmates
Kat Wallace (fiddle) and Mike Siegel (upright bass).
Sumner is no stranger to the stage.
She spent her early career on the bluegrass circuit,
singing and writing with the genre-bending roots group Twisted Pine.
Since setting out on her own, Sumner's songs have been critically acclaimed:
winning the 2021 John Lennon Award in the folk category
for her song "Radium Girls (Curie Eleison);"
earning a spot in the Kerrville New Folk Competition;
and being chosen four consecutive years as one of the top
Massachusetts entries in NPR’s Tiny Desk Competition.
Rachel Sumner & Traveling Light released their debut LP
in the summer of 2022 to critical acclaim.
