American folk quartet Windborne are about to embark on a national UK tour of their recent album “To warm the winter hearth”. The tour finale will be a concert at St Martins-in-the-Field London on 11 February.
Angie Lemon
Hailed as “the most exciting vocal group in a generation” (NPR), Windborne are specialists in close harmony singing, shifting effortlessly between different styles of traditional music.
Their songs span many continents and cultures, with a repertoire that includes mid-winter folk songs from America, Europe and the UK. While they mostly sing in English, they also perform occasional folk songs in Lithuanian and Occitan.
Windborne’s tour commences in Marazion, Cornwall and includes a Celtic Connections concert with the Bulgarian Voices & Glasgow Chamber Choir, the Cambridge Music Festival, Bristol Folk House, Oxford University’s Worcester College and a host of leading music venues with a finale concert at London’s St Martins-in-the-Field, London.
The secret to Windborne’s success as a full-time touring folk quartet lies in their vocal harmonies and strong audience engagement, both in live concerts and across their ever-growing social media interaction with international audiences on Tik Tok, Instagram and Meta pages. Windborne have succeeded in making a successful career from a cappella folk songs through an active social media presence which has worked wonders for them.
Their latest album ‘To Warm The Winter Hearth’ released through Wandr’ing Feet Records on December 6th 2024, stands as the #1 crowdfunding album of all time on Backerkit and #5 crowdfunded album of all time on any platform. With a twenty-year background studying polyphonic music around the world, Lauren Breunig, Jeremy Carter-Gordon, Lynn Rowan, and Will Rowan effortlessly shift between different styles of music on a journey that spans continents and centuries, illuminating and expanding on the profound power and variation of the human voice.
For centuries, communities have gathered at this coldest time of the year to sing, celebrate and share the stories of the past as Windborne share in their own words:
“We feel particularly drawn towards the music that connects us to friends, community, and nature. This album is a collection of songs that represent some of the folklore and rituals that are meaningful to us. ”
“We are deeply grateful to the tradition-bearers who came before us – the countless known and unknown people who sang these songs in their homes and in pubs, down country lanes, and on concert stages – they gave us the customs that we hold dear today”, they add.
Windborne’s tour has been organised through Concerted Artists and their finale concert is by candleight in London at St Martins-in-the-Field on February 11.
For more information click here: Windborne Singers, Facebook, Instagram and TikTok.
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