Kate Rusby likes a dose of sadness in her songs
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Georgia Straight - Found 14 hours ago Kate Rusby learned to sing in the back of the family car. |
Kate Rusby to play Folk Under Clock at Showplace
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Peterborough Examiner - Found Feb. 26, 2010 ... to North America for a tour that stops at Showplace Peterborough on Friday, March 12. British folk singer Kate Rusby's flying phobia is well... |
Little Jack Frost: Kate Rusby
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Keep The Coffee Coming - Found Feb. 4, 2010 It's been too long between Kate Rusby's songs. This is from The Girl Who Couldn't Fly released in 2005. MP3 File yousendit |
Kate Rusby to perform at Ireby Festival
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News and Star - Found Jan. 7, 2010 Folk music?s poster girl Kate Rusby is among the attractions at this year?s Ireby Festival. |
Album: Kate Rusby, Sweet Bells, (Pure)
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The Independent - Found Dec. 20, 2009 Kate Rusby's Sweet Bells offends against neither taste nor sensibility in its parlaying of assorted Christmas songs and carols (some of them... |
Kate Rusby performs at Hanleys Victoria Hall
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Ellesmere Port Pioneer - Found Dec. 18, 2009 LEADING British folk singer-songwriter Kate Rusby brings her highly acclaimed music to Hanley?s Victoria Hall tonight (Wednesday). |
News & Reviews: Kate Rusby performs at Hanleys Victoria Hall
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Chester Chronicle - Found Dec. 16, 2009 LEADING British folk singer-songwriter Kate Rusby brings her highly acclaimed music to Hanleys Victoria Hall tonight (Wednesday). |
Mairi Campbell to sing out for her ain folk
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Edinburgh Evening News - Found Mar. 20, 2010 ... stretches to three weeks of music, dance and storytelling, and is headlined this year by one of the UK's best-known folk artists, Kate Rusby. Mairi Campbell to sing out for her ain folk - The Scotsman Explore All |
Jim Gilchrist: Local talent and big names take their partners for a ...
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The Scotsman - Found Mar. 18, 2010 ... as the Canongate Cadjers and the Robert Fish Band, established headliners like the Barnsley lintie Kate Rusby, Ireland's Paul Brady and... |
Folk music: Local talent and big names take their partners for a ...
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The Scotsman - Found Mar. 17, 2010 ... as the Canongate Cadjers and the Robert Fish Band, established headliners like the Barnsley lintie Kate Rusby, Ireland's Paul Brady and... |
Kate Rusby Biography
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Kate Rusby
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| Born | 4 December 1973 1 |
| Origin | Penistone, South Yorkshire, England |
| Genres | English Folk Music |
| Occupations | Singer-Songwriter |
| Instruments | Guitar, Vocals |
| Years active | 1995–present |
| Labels | Pure Records |
| Associated acts | Damien O'Kane, The Poozies |
| Website | www.KateRusby.com |
Kate Anna Rusby (born 4 December 1973 in Sheffield, England2), is an English folk singer and songwriter from Penistone, South Yorkshire. Sometimes known as The Barnsley Nightingale, she has headlined various British national folk festivals, and is regarded as one of the most famous English folk singers of contemporary times. In 2001 The Guardian described her as "a superstar of the British acoustic scene."3 In 2007 the BBC website described her as "The first lady of young folkies". She is one of the few folk singers to have been nominated for the Mercury Prize.45
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Career
Rusby was born into a family of musicians. After learning to play the guitar, the fiddle, and the piano, as well as to sing, she played in many local folk festivals as a child and adolescent, before joining (and becoming the lead vocalist of) the all-female Celtic folk band The Poozies. Her break-through album came in 1995. A collaboration with her friend and fellow Barnsley folk singer Kathryn Roberts was simply titled "Kate Rusby & Kathryn Roberts". In 1997, with the help of her family, she recorded and released her first solo album, Hourglass. Since then she has gone on to receive acclaim in her home country and abroad, and her family continues to help her with all aspects of her professional career.
Rusby was also a member of the folk group Equation, later to be replaced by Cara Dillon. The early line-up also featured Rusby's erstwhile performing partner Kathryn Roberts and Mercury-nominated artist Seth Lakeman. Their demo CD, In Session, had a small commercial release.
The previously unreleased song "Wandering Soul" was Rusby's contribution to the soundtrack for Billy Connolly's World Tour of New Zealand, an eight-part BBC television documentary series originally broadcast in November 2004.
A collaboration with Ronan Keating saw Rusby riding high in the UK singles chart; their duet "All Over Again" peaking at no.6 in June 2006. She also made a large vocal contribution to the successful debut solo album of Roddy Woomble, the lead singer of Idlewild. In the same year her cover of The Kinks' "The Village Green Preservation Society" was used as the theme tune to the BBC One television sitcom Jam & Jerusalem. Rusby has written several new songs for the newest series of Jam & Jerusalem and is credited as responsible for the show's music.
Launched at the 2007 Cambridge Folk Festival, the album Awkward Annie was released on 3 September 2007. "The Village Green Preservation Society" is included as a bonus track.
Personal Life
In August 2001, Rusby married Scottish fiddler and fellow band member John McCusker (formerly of the Battlefield Band), who produced most of her recordings up through The Girl Who Couldn't Fly. They have since divorced.1
Rusby lives with her partner Damien O'Kane and her dog Doris, herself a mainstay feature of Rusby's banter during gigs and appearing on her merchandise.6 Their first child, Daisy Delia Rusby O'Kane was born at 9.45am on the 15 September 2009, weighing in at 8lb 5oz.7
Discography
Solo albums
- Hourglass (1997)
- Sleepless (1999)
- Little Lights (2001)
- 10 (2002)
- Heartlands (2003)
- Underneath the Stars (2003)
- The Girl Who Couldn't Fly (2005)8
- Awkward Annie (2007) #2 UK Indie
- Sweet Bells (2008)
Awards
Mercury Music Prize
BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards
- 2000: Folk Singer of the Year — winner9
- 2000: Best Album: Sleepless — winner9
- 2002: Best Original Song: "Who Will Sing Me Lullabies"1 — winner9
- 2006: Best Original Song: "No Names" (with Roddy Woomble from Idlewild) — nominated
- 2006: Best Album: The Girl Who Couldn't Fly — nominated
- 2006: Best Live Act — winner10
References and notes
- ^ a b c Freeman, Sarah; "Can we really trust Wikipedia?" YorkshirePost.co.uk, 16 August 2007 (Retrieved: 19 July 2009)
- ^ "KateRusby.com: Biography" KateRusby.com (Retrieved: 19 July 2009)
- ^ Denselow, Robin; "Kate Rusby — Queen Elizabeth Hall, London" Guardian.co.uk, 28 June 2001 (Retrieved: 19 July 2009)
- ^ Wilson, Sue; "Lost love and other heartbreaks" Independent.co.uk, 18 June 2001 (Retrieved: 19 July 2009)
- ^ a b "No sure bets for Mercury" news.BBC.co.uk, 7 September 1999 (Retrieved: 19 July 2009)
- ^ Dexter, Zoe (7 August 2009). "An Evening with Kate Rusby and Friends". BBC. http://www.bbc.co.uk/lincolnshire/content/articles/2009/07/08/kate_rusby_feature.shtml. Retrieved 2009-08-16.
- ^ "The Official Website". http://www.katerusby.com/. Retrieved 16 September 2009.
- ^ "Safe as Folk". BBC. 15 September 2005. http://www.bbc.co.uk/manchester/content/articles/2005/09/15/021005_kate_rusby_event_feature.shtml. Retrieved 2009-07-19.
- ^ a b c "Radio 2 Folk Awards 2006: Previous Winners" BBC.co.uk (Retrieved: 19 July 2009)
- ^ "Radio 2 Folk Awards 2006: Winners" BBC.co.uk (Retrieved: 19 July 2009)
External links
- Official website KateRusby.com
- Artists: Kate Rusby PureRecords.net
- BBC Music Biography BBC.co.uk
- Review of Sweet Bells Folk Radio UK
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