Rachel Sermanni
26 January 2012 (19:30 - 22:30)
“Close your eyes and you'd imagine Joni Mitchell had moved from Laurel Canyon to Carrbridge” Teddy Jamieson, The Herald Magazine, January 2012
Last year Rachel Sermanni came from her home, Carrbridge in the highlands, with her mum to play her first gig in Kirkcaldy.
She came with an enviable reputation for a young woman still in her teens.
Rachel has burst on to the music scene and has had spectacular success with Mumford and Sons recording one of her songs and appearances at festivals and clubs leading to a rush to sign her up as an act.
She describes 2011 as a whirlwind year when she toured Europe, supported Elvis Costello in Sligo and Rumer in Birmingam. Only a year ago she appeared in the New Faces strand of Celtic Connections festival in Glasgow.
Starring on the front page and with two pages inside the Herald’s look ahead Rachel is the “R” in the Herald’s alphabetic list of “Reasons to be Cheerful” in 2012.
Rachel’s appearance last year was suggested by a club member who thought she should be approached for a gig before she went global. It certainly looks like his prediction was on the mark.
Rachel has signed with a prestigious agency, has toured extensively and performed with the great and the good.
Nevertheless she manages to appear both worldly and innocent, shy and confident.
Her songs are thought provoking and interesting and tuneful.
No doubt there will be excerpts from her first EP which is being released on 30th January, only four days after her gig.
Rachel Sermanni has a charming and sparkly sense of humour and her sets whiz by leaving you recalling with pleasure an evening in the company of a lovely young woman on the brink of a huge and deserved career in music.
http://www.rachelsermanni.net/