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Kathryn Tickell talks about her new album, Return to Kielderside, a reimagining of her debut, On Kielder Side. While forty years may have passed, much of what shaped that first album still remains at the heart of everything she does today.

Return to Kielderside is, among other things, a document of what has happened between that first Kathryn Tickell release and the present day-It’s like a long-exposure photograph of an important and highly impressive career in constant evolution.

Kathryn Tickell shares her new single, Sycamore Gap, in honour of the tree that was, in a mindless act of vandalism, felled in 2023. She has revealed that the tune will also be on the forthcoming album ‘Return to Kielderside’.

Watch Kathryn Tickell and The Darkening’s new video for ‘Caelestis’, inspired by Latin words from around 1900 years ago that were inscribed on a stone found at Carvoran in Northumberland.

As Kathryn Tickell and The Darkening return with their second album, Cloud Horizons, we chat with Kathryn about how the album came about, the shadow of Hadrian’s Wall, mythical magic, the multicultural history of Northumbria, job-sharing singers and more.

Aptly described as ‘Ancient Northumbrian Futurism’, Kathryn Tickell and The Darkening’s ‘Cloud Horizons’ is an electrifying and incredibly captivating album. In capturing a sound that effortlessly conjures the past whilst simultaneously referencing the present and future, they have created a rather unique and striking soundscape.

Kathryn Tickell & The Darkening announce cloud horizons, their second album (out on September 1 via Resilient Records). Ahead of the release, she shares the lead single ‘Long For Light’, also our Song of the Day.

We Are The Monsters is a new project featuring members of Kathryn Tickell and The Darkening, Monster Ceilidh Band and The Shee. The results promise to be boundary pushing and quite electrifying -a new celtic folk fusion sound.

While in Orkney, Kathryn Tickell drops in on Karen Tweed and they record a lovely performance of Lurand, a tune by Heather Woodbridge, an Orkney fiddler from North Ronaldsay. Don’t miss Kathryn Tickell and The Darkening on tour.

In partnership with Cambridge Folk Festival, BFI curators William Fowler and Vic Pratt have put together a selection of folk-related films to watch for free on the BFI website including documentaries featuring The Watersons, Kathryn Tickell, Fairport Convention, Jethro Tull and more.

Northumbrian Piper and fiddle player Kathryn Tickell is to join forces with her dad, poet and singer Mike Tickell and her brother Peter in a special one-off concert at Sage Gateshead.

Folk In The Fall offers a long-awaited day of live music ft. Leveret, Martin Simpson, Kathryn Tickell & Amy Thatcher, Jimmy Aldridge & Sid Goldsmith and Emily Portman & Rob Harbron.

We talk to Kathryn Tickell – a fierce and leading proponent of the Northumbrian smallpipes, with a staggering solo and collaborative discography, we were excited to dig a little deeper into the backstory behind her most recent release, Hollowbone.

Kathryn Tickell’s music flows so naturally you could be forgiven for thinking it’s plucked from the air. Hollowbone belies that notion in magnificent style. The music is complex and animated, exploring the mists of millennia but singing in a clear, contemporary voice… a wonderful, brave, and intoxicating album.

Watch OUT Spell which features a tongue-twisting spell courtesy of Kathryn Tickell and The Darkening. Plus we’ve news of a new David Almond book inspired by real events which involved Kathryn Tickell and her father Mike.

Award-winning traditional harpist and singer Rachel Newton is to co-curate a series of concerts at London’s Kings Place under the title of Trad. Reclaimed: Women in Folk. Names announced so far include The Shee Big Band, Kathryn Tickell & The Darkening and more.

Watch Kathryn Tickell and The Darkening performing live in concert at Get North 2018 festival. They are performing at a number of festivals this summer including Sidmouth Folk Week.

We talk to Kathryn Tickell about Magnetic North East, borne out of a love for the region: its music, arts, culture, heritage, places and people. They are also launching a new poetry anthology – ‘Land of Three Rivers’ is a celebration of North-East England in poetry.