Top drawer chamber folk

Ever since Lauren MacColl came South to Petworth to play with Salthouse three years ago, we’ve been trying to bring you this wonderful group.

RANT are four of Scotland’s finest players, using just their fiddles to weave a tapestry of melodies, textures, layers and sounds.

Bethany Reid from Shetland, Anna Massie and Lauren MacColl from the Highland peninsula of the Black Isle, and Gillian Frame from the Isle of Arran join forces to showcase the combined resonance of their instruments with repertoire unearthed from both old collections and their own contemporary writing.

RANT create a sound which is both spacious and lush, yet retaining all the earthy bite and spark synonymous with a Scottish fiddle playe

An irresistible journey through reels, strathspeys and jigs” Songlines