Rachel Sumner & The Traveling Light

Saturday June 27th | Doors at 7pm | Show 7:30 Rachel Sumner & Traveling Light Bookish bite. Sharp harmonies. Songs about saints, scientists, and stubborn women. Fresh off their 2025 Telluride Bluegrass Band Contest win, Rachel Sumner & Traveling Light are a Boston-based string band making music that blends folk tradition with feminist storytelling, poetic detail, and a little grit. At the center is Sumner’s songwriting—rooted in history, myth, and personal reckoning—carried by close harmonies, upright bass, acoustic guitar, and fiddle. The trio features Kat Wallace on fiddle and vocals and Mike Siegel on upright bass and vocals, whose playing brings both tension and tenderness to the sound. Riley Gilbreath Riley Gilbreath is a traditional bluegrass musician and singer whose influences include Ralph and Carter Stanley, J.D. Crowe and the New South, Keith Whitley, Larry Sparks and Harley Allen. Riley began playing banjo at age 12 with a loaner banjo from The Bluegrass Heritage Foundation. After three years playing the banjo, he won the Texas State Banjo Championship at age 15 and at age 21 won the SPBFMA International Band Championship in Nashville, Tennessee. 

Low-frills performance space is an intimate fixture for singer/songwriters & other mellow acts.

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Saturday June 27th | Doors at 7pm | Show 7:30 Rachel Sumner & Traveling Light Bookish bite. Sharp harmonies. Songs about saints, scientists, and stubborn women. Fresh off their 2025 Telluride Bluegrass Band Contest win, Rachel Sumner & Traveling Light are a Boston-based string band making music that blends folk tradition with feminist storytelling, poetic detail, and a little grit. At the center is Sumner’s songwriting—rooted in history, myth, and personal reckoning—carried by close harmonies, upright bass, acoustic guitar, and fiddle. The trio features Kat Wallace on fiddle and vocals and Mike Siegel on upright bass and vocals, whose playing brings both tension and tenderness to the sound. Riley Gilbreath Riley Gilbreath is a tradition