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Halifax Evening Courier - Found Sep. 30, 2008 The Victoria played host to the superstar of the modern British folk scene, Kate Rusby, the lass from South Yorkshire with a voice like an angel, who ... |
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Yorkshire Post - Found Oct. 6, 2008 Barnsley's Kate Rusby has been described as 'the first lady of young folkies' and won numerous awards for her contemporary and traditional songs |
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Halifax Evening Courier - Found Oct. 13, 2008 Kate Rusby and her band were fantastic and the sound and lighting were both excellent.The new seating in the stalls, together with the... |
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Newcastle Evening Chronicle - Found Oct. 10, 2008 Hall 1 has the darling of the UK folk scene, Kate Rusby, making a return to the region. |
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Newcastle Evening Chronicle - Found Oct. 9, 2008 He played on the debut Kate Rusby album and later with fiddlers, Alasdair Fraser and Bruce Molsky. |
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Keighley News - Found Oct. 9, 2008 ... singer Jane McDonald (12); Black Dyke Band festive concert (13); folk star Kate Rusby (16); One Night with Elvis with Lee 'Memphis' King (18); |
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The List - Found Sep. 17, 2008 ... was produced by McCusker, the fiddle virtuoso once married to Kate Rusby, who Woomble has also performed with. |
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The Scotsman - Found Sep. 19, 2008 Thatís how I started.'I worked with Kate Rusby last year and it took me right back to when I thought I was Doncasterís answer to Joan... |
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Halifax Evening Courier - Found Sep. 30, 2008 SundayTheatre Kate Rusby: Barnsley-based folk singer. £19.50 and £21.50, 7.30pm. Victoria Theatre, Halifax. Dr Nose Travels Through Time! |
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Guardian Unlimited - Found Sep. 12, 2008 ... in our shared love of strong tea, Girls Aloud-style dancefloor manouevres and a habit of listening to Kate Rusby's Blooming Heather when drunk. |
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Kate Rusby
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| Background information | |
| Born | December 4, 1973 |
| Origin | Barnsley, South Yorkshire, England |
| Occupation(s) | Singer |
| Years active | 1995-Present |
| Label(s) | Pure Records |
| Associated acts | John McCusker, Roddy Woomble, Kris Drever |
| Website | www.katerusby.com |
Kate Rusby (born December 4, 1973) is an English folk singer and songwriter from Barnsley, 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." 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.
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Kate 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 breakthrough 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.
The Scottish fiddler John McCusker (formerly of the Battlefield Band) produced most of Rusby's recordings up to The Girl Who Couldn't Fly and played in her band. Rusby and McCusker were married in August 2001, but are now divorced.
Rusby was also a member of the folk group, Equation, later to be replaced by Cara Dillon. In its early lineup, Equation 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.
In 2004 she contributed a previously unreleased song, "Wandering soul", to the soundtrack of the BBC documentary series Billy Connolly's World Tour of New Zealand.
In 2006 she enjoyed a spell in the UK Top Ten singles chart with "All Over Again", a duet with Ronan Keating. The single reached number 6 in June 2006. She also made a large vocal contribution to the successful debut solo album of Idlewild's lead singer, Roddy Woomble. In the same year her rendition of The Kinks' The Village Green Preservation Society was used as the theme tune to the BBC comedy Jam and Jerusalem.
An album titled Awkward Annie was released on 3 September 2007. Her version of "Village Green Preservation Society", used as the theme to the BBC sitcom Jam and Jerusalem, is included as a bonus track. The album was launched at the 2007 Cambridge Folk Festival.
In 1999 she was nominated for the Mercury Music Prize. She is the recipient of four BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards: in 2000 she won Folk Singer of the Year and Best Album (for Sleepless); in 2002 she was awarded Best Original Song (for Who Will Sing Me Lullabies). In 2006 she was nominated for Best Original Song (for No Names with Roddy Woomble from Idlewild) and for Best Album (for The Girl Who Couldn't Fly) and won Best Live Act. 2007 she took a Garden Sessions "Song of the year" for 'Awkward Annie'.

Title: The Village Green Preservation Society Kate Rusby
Description: The Kate Rusby version of the Song perormed for Jam and Jerusalem
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