English folk singer and songwriter, Kate Rusby returns to the Queen's Theatre on Friday 11th October after headlining at many of this year's British folk festivals. The Barnsley Nightingale, as she is sometimes called, is one of the few folk singers to have been nominated for the Mercury Prize.
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.
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. -- www.northdevontheatres.org.uk
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