Rootweave

Gigs · Reading

Rootweave

Friday 20 November 2026 · Doors 20:00

Rising Sun Arts Centre, Reading

About this event

Rootweave is on Friday 20 November 2026 at Rising Sun Arts Centre, Reading, with doors at 20:00. Tickets start at £8.80, including the booking fee.

Rootweave is the creative revolutionary work of Brighton based multi-instrumentalist and wordsmith Em Swift. They blend contemporary folk and invocation-like spoken word, with influences ranging from Celtic trad, strings metal, and Italian folk-pop. Their raw, powerful lyrics, voice and unique folk style thread together stories of grief, community, ancestral reconnection, deep time, change and liberation. Their music truthfully and passionately accompanies listeners through this age of collapse and transformation. For fans of Kae Tempest, Climbing Poe Tree, La Nina, Grace Petrie We're very excited to be bringing them to Reading and to the Rising Sun Arts Centre. Support TBC

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