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Gig review: Dervish - Scotsman


Gig review: Dervish
Scotsman
Well-kent faces on show ranged from Bothy Band fiddler Kevin Burke to sonnet siren Kate Rusby to Swedish trio Vasen (also celebrating their 21st ...

Posted on January 25, 2010, 5:06 pm

Harvest at Jimmy's '10 - eFestivals.co.uk


Harvest at Jimmy's '10
eFestivals.co.uk
The family friendly two-day celebration of the best of British food will also include a line-up of music including appearances from Kate Rusby, Mark Hix, ...

Posted on January 14, 2010, 8:50 am

Search Search Go - Belfast Telegraph


Search Search Go
Belfast Telegraph
The line-up for the 17th festival includes The Chieftains, Ry Cooder, Tom Paxton, Dervish and Kate Rusby. Tributes to folk music icons, are planned by Danny ...

Posted on January 8, 2010, 7:40 am

Joe's Pub Announces Their Upcoming Shows - Broadway World


Joe's Pub Announces Their Upcoming Shows
Broadway World
... accompanist and session player for the likes of Joan Baez, Eileen Ivers, Tim O'Brien, Linda Thompson, Seamus Egan, Alison Brown and Kate Rusby. ...

Posted on January 13, 2010, 1:22 pm

The Magnetic Fields - Realism - musicOMH.com


The Magnetic Fields - Realism
musicOMH.com
... places this collection closer to the chamber pop he created on 69 Love Songs than something conjured up by the likes of Kate Rusby or Rachel Unthank. ...

Posted on January 16, 2010, 9:31 pm

Gig roundup: Our 2010 concert wish lists - OnMilwaukee.com


OnMilwaukee.com

Gig roundup: Our 2010 concert wish lists
OnMilwaukee.com
Also, I hear that English folkie Kate Rusby -- who I was lucky enough to see at Chicago's Old Town School of Folk a number of years ago -- has some Canadian ...

Posted on January 4, 2010, 8:07 am

Ushering a new era ? concert hall's glass wing gets ready to take a bow - Scotsman


Ushering a new era ? concert hall's glass wing gets ready to take a bow
Scotsman
... Anton du Beke and Erin Boag, and visits from pop, rock and folk acts Bjorn Again, Ronan Keating, Jamie Callum, Rufus Wainwright and Kate Rusby. ...

and more »

Posted on January 10, 2010, 5:12 pm

Martyn Joseph coming to Folk Under the Clock - Peterborough Examiner


Martyn Joseph coming to Folk Under the Clock
Peterborough Examiner
Folk Under the Clock moving to Showplace for the final two concerts of its 24th season: Kate Rusby on March 12 and Oysterband on April 13.

Posted on January 14, 2010, 4:59 am

Diktatörler hangi müzikleri dinliyor - Haber teleSKOP'unuz HaberSkop


Haber teleSKOP'unuz HaberSkop

Diktatörler hangi müzikleri dinliyor
Haber teleSKOP'unuz HaberSkop
Nick Griffin: ?ngiliz ?rkç? partisi BNP'nin Ba?kan? Griffin Kate Rusby ve Eliza Charty gibi geleneksel halk müzi?i ?ark?c?lar?n? dinilyor. ...

Posted on January 21, 2010, 3:51 am

Kate Rusby Biography

Kate Rusby
extracted from Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia, distributed under the GNU Free Documentation License

Kate Rusby

Background information
Born 4 December 1973 (1973-12-04) (age 36)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 at the Larmer Tree Festival 2008

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

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

  1. ^ a b c Freeman, Sarah; "Can we really trust Wikipedia?" YorkshirePost.co.uk, 16 August 2007 (Retrieved: 19 July 2009)
  2. ^ "KateRusby.com: Biography" KateRusby.com (Retrieved: 19 July 2009)
  3. ^ Denselow, Robin; "Kate Rusby — Queen Elizabeth Hall, London" Guardian.co.uk, 28 June 2001 (Retrieved: 19 July 2009)
  4. ^ Wilson, Sue; "Lost love and other heartbreaks" Independent.co.uk, 18 June 2001 (Retrieved: 19 July 2009)
  5. ^ a b "No sure bets for Mercury" news.BBC.co.uk, 7 September 1999 (Retrieved: 19 July 2009)
  6. ^ 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. 
  7. ^ "The Official Website". http://www.katerusby.com/. Retrieved 16 September 2009. 
  8. ^ "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. 
  9. ^ a b c "Radio 2 Folk Awards 2006: Previous Winners" BBC.co.uk (Retrieved: 19 July 2009)
  10. ^ "Radio 2 Folk Awards 2006: Winners" BBC.co.uk (Retrieved: 19 July 2009)

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