Kate Rusby-John Barbury

Kate Rusby 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. 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. 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.
Rusby at the Larmer Tree Festival 2008
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.

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[kmacku]

Heard this on NPR. I can't say I heard all the lyrics the first time through, or remembered all the melodies, but I can say that it stuck with me long enough to where I'd look up the radio station and the specific playlist just to find this one song. And that's saying something. I have a feeling I'll be listening to this a lot over the next few weeks.

[wadrs]

@kmacku

Thanks glad you like it kate is a very talented yorkshire lass listen to more of her songs and you will be in for a treat.

[Katerusbyfan14]

love kate seeing her on friday night!!!!!!!

[wadrs]

Thanks for the comment glad you liked the video. Hope the Gig on friday night is good she is excellent live

[jenir123]

What a beautiful song. I'm sure this is the same tune as Farewell farewell by Fairport Convention, aka Willie o' Winsbury. A great song.

[wadrs]

still put them up they will be good to see

Don't no if your on the Longdogs forum if so I'm on and go under the name of BLIND FIDDLER

[306bad]

Thanks Jenir123 you are brilliant, I hope Sandy Denny was involved in the Fairport song her voice had the same energy as Kate Rusby she was a great singer.

I will check out willie o winsbury as you suggest. It is a great song and the words suggest it is quite an old song and Kate s good at looking for new ideas from old music books but I think Fairport got there first,

Kate will not steel a song, she always acknowledges the writer when she can .

Thanks jenir123

[jenir123]

@306bad Just checked out willie o winsbury on wikipedia and there is a lot of information relating to the origin of the song on there. It mentions all the variants including John Barbury and a whole host of others. Hope that's helpful to you

[jenir123]

@306bad According to wikipedia Farewell farewell is an original composition written by Richard Thompson.

[306bad]

@jenir123

You are spot on with you link to Fairport Convention. I am interested because I was trying to find the origin of this song. Kate included this song on her brilliant album "Awkward Annie", As a fan I know she puts old songs to music and she is brilliant at doing that and she marked "John Barbury" on the album as Traditional, arranged by Kate Rusby so where did Fairport find it ? The search goes on.

[biposto749]

Hope we make it to Buxton to hear her live this month could be snowing lol

[dandeexxxx]

there are few singers who can craft a song like this lady