kate rusby

Kate Rusby talks to Folk Radio UK about her new album ’20’ which features a host of well known guests including Nic Jones, Paul Weller, Dick Gaughan, Ruchard Thompson and many more!

Kate Rusby is to release a new album entitled ’20’ which celebrates her twenty years of making music. The album features a new track and duet with Paul Weller as well as a host of folk giants from Richard Thompson to Nic Jones!

We talk to Damien O’Kane about his latest album with David Kosky, his musical background, his involvement in Kate Rusby’s 20th Anniversary album and exciting news of a second arrival!

The second in our Tradition mixes. It features both new and old from an old pub session from 1967 featuring Bobby Casey to Christy Moore, Kris Drever, Kate Rusby, Gavin Davenport and more!

Shrewsbury Folk Festival has unveiled its line-up for next year’s event with Richard Thompson and Kate Rusby topping the bill.

Music has been used to spread messages; political, romantic, historical, for hundreds, probably thousands of years. It’s an effective medium and the musical traditions we’re so proud of owe their very existence to this fact. The trouble is, of course, that almost any message is open to interpretation. This CD, and the Folk Against Fascism movement it supports, have come about because of the misappropriation of British folk music and …

Given his work with Flook, Shona Kipling and, more recently, his partner Kate Rusby, I expected Damien O’Kane’s debut solo album to be a collection of perfectly executed banjo tunes with the occasional song. Oh how I love to be educated. I was wrong; very, very wrong. In Summer Hill Damien has given us something rather special. Something with astute instrumentation, thoughtful arrangements and contributing musicians of the highest calibre. …