Kate Rusby

Kate Rusby
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Genre: Celtic
Styles: British Folk, Contemporary Folk, Irish Folk, Contemporary Singer/Songwriter
Biography: Folk singer/songwriter Kate Rusby has lived in Barnsley, South Yorkshire, since birth, and grew up in a musical family. Her parents had a ceilidh dance band and introduced her to British folk at an early age. Along with her sister, Emma, Rusby joined the band, singing backup and playing the fiddle. By ...Read full biography
Underneath the Stars
Released: 2004
Label: Pure
Critics' Rating:
Few folk singers bring traditional song alive in the way Kate Rusby does. Her casual, intimate manner -- and the fact that she often adds her own tunes to the old words -- has a marvelous contemporary ...Read full review
Hourglass
Released: 1998
Label: Compass Records
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This debut album by the young English folk singer Kate Rusby comes across the water with enormous hype behind it, so one's first impulse is to listen with a little cynicism. But from the first track she ...Read full review
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