Rachel Sumner & Traveling Light at Poor David's

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.

Doors at 7pm

Show starts at 7:30

Local Opener to be announced

Photo by Orion Willits