Rachel Sumner & Traveling Light

Fresh off a first-place win at the 2025 Telluride Bluegrass Festival band competition, Rachel Sumner & Traveling Light have been captivating audiences throughout the northeast. With songs as sweet and biting as the nectar and venom in her voice, Sumner’s lyric-forward writing and penchant for snaking chord progressions demand something far beyond folk conventions, highlighting the acrobatic range of her brilliant bandmates Kat Wallace (fiddle) and Mike Siegel (upright bass).

Sumner is no stranger to the stage. She spent her early career on the bluegrass circuit, singing and writing with the genre-bending roots group Twisted Pine. Since setting out on her own, Sumner’s songs have been critically acclaimed: winning the 2021 John Lennon Award in the folk category for her song “Radium Girls (Curie Eleison);” earning a spot in the Kerrville New Folk Competition, and being chosen four consecutive years as one of the top Massachusetts entries in NPR’s Tiny Desk Competition. Rachel Sumner & Traveling Light released their debut LP in the summer of 2022 to critical acclaim.

Listen on Bandcamp.

Learn more at rachelsumnermusic.com.

Granite Bluegrass Series

You may also like the following events from The Granite Church:

• This Saturday, 20th December, 06:00 pm, Holiday Caroling in Redding
• Happening on, 11th January, 10:00 am, Chamber Music Reading in Redding
• Happening on, 24th January, 06:00 pm, Winter Warmer with Charlotte Roth and the Big Drama and Kira McSpice in Redding

Also check out other Contests in Redding, Festivals in Redding, Music events in Redding.