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lemonade kid
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 Posted - 26/02/2012 : 02:09:05
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Kate Rusby
Who Will Sing Me Lullabies
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=No5FkAmTaJY
Kate Anna Rusby (born 4 December 1973[2]) 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.
Rusby was born into a family of musicians in 1973 in Sheffield, England.[2] 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" peaked at #6 in June 2006. She also made a 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 latest 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.
2008 saw the release of Sweet Bells, an album of traditional Christmas songs interpreted by Rusby.
In 2010, Rusby released the album Make The Light, a collection of self-penned songs, and in 2011 issued a second collection of Christmas songs titled While Mortals Sleep.
Let Me Be, live... BBC2 Folk Awards--2006: Best Live Act – winner
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95WeNwF5448
Solo albums
* Hourglass (1997)
* Sleepless (1999)
* Little Lights (2001)
* 10 (2002)
* Heartlands (2003)
* Underneath the Stars (2003)
* The Girl Who Couldn't Fly (2005)
* Awkward Annie (2007) #2 UK Indie
* Make the Light (2010)
Not Me, Sidmouth 2011
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_X4_ycKHgMU&feature=related
some of Kate's fine sense of humor during her live sets.."Cowsong"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWoEd8gWLYo&feature=related
1995-When Kate was just a wee lass, with Kathryn Roberts- "Exile"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hl7JI4p1ezY&feature=related
Wild Goose
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6tVU--Cbes&feature=related
Kate in good humor finds a tree with her signature hair "look"...
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We are raised to honor all the wrong explorers & discoverers-
-thieves planting flags, murderers carrying crosses.
Let us at last praise the colonizers of dreams.
-Peter S. Beagle 1973
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John9
Old Love
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Posted - 26/02/2012 : 17:10:49
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Yes indeed, LK. Kate is a great favourite of mine as well - she's a Sheffield girl. In some ways she reminds me of Sandy Denny. |
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lemonade kid
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BobbyFischer
Fifth Love
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Posted - 26/04/2013 : 01:48:28
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| Wow Great voice! Thanks for sharing |
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BobbyFischer
Fifth Love
Norway
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Posted - 26/04/2013 : 02:13:54
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Heard OF her but never heard her music before,what a GREAT new discovery!
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lemonade kid
Old Love
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Posted - 26/04/2013 : 14:06:04
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quote:
Originally posted by BobbyFischer
Heard OF her but never heard her music before,what a GREAT new discovery!
Fun when we find a "new" artist like Kate that really excites us, eh, bf!?
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BobbyFischer
Fifth Love
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Posted - 27/04/2013 : 19:51:40
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| Hell yeah! :-) |
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lemonade kid
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