ACCLAIMED Folk duo The Rheingans Sisters will showcase songs from their new album when they perform in Otley.

The group, which won the Best Original Track category at the 2016 BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards, will take the stage at Otley Courthouse on Sunday, April 15.

The date is part of a UK tour to promote their third album Bright Field, which was released on Rootbeat Records on March 23.

Since their award-winning 2015 release, Already Home, the pair have cemented a reputation as an unmissable live act on the folk and world music stage.

Their stated aim is to 'reimagine' traditional music through the adventurous use of fiddles, voices, banjo, bansitar, tambourin à cordes, poetry and percussion.

Their performances to date have proved a hit across the UK, Europe and Australia while their compositions - including the award-winning song Mackerel - have also gained them many new fans.

Anna Rheingans lives and works as a musician and violin teacher in Toulouse, while Rowan Rheingans is one of the most in demand musicians on the current UK folk scene.

Hailing from Sheffield, both have enjoyed a pan-European musical scholarship and have studied in France, Sweden, Norway and Ireland.

Anna has also been kept busy with involvement in four other notable releases over the past two years.

Those have included her trio Lady Maisery’s critically acclaimed third album, Cycle, Nancy Kerr’s Instar, Welsh songwriter Gwyneth Glyn’s debut album Tro and the Songs of Separation project.

Bright Field is The Rheingans Sisters' first collection of newly composed music and draws on their own personal experiences.

It is also informed by their wide-ranging and multi-cultural musical knowledge.

Rowan’s dark poem-song This Forest - a lament on the idea of humanity’s historical progress - is constructed along the lines of a traditional French Rondeau, giving the song a relentless cyclical rhythm.

Green Unstopping, meanwhile, teases listeners with a dreamlike series of half-seen images of environmental catastrophe and the potential for redemption.

Anna’s recent travels also permeate her compositions, and Bright Field’s opening track, Glattugla, was written last year while she was studying in Norway.

Produced by the sisters themselves, Bright Field was recorded and mixed in Abergavenny by Dylan Fowler and sees the sisters playing a plethora of instruments - many handmade by their luthier father, Helmut.

The duo's Otley Courthouse show starts at 8pm and tickets cost £13. To book a place call (01943) 467466 or visit www.otleycourthouse.org.uk .