Kate Rusby

Song of the Day: Kate Rusby’s inspiring message to teenagers

Colin Randall writes: Let Your Light Shine is the new single from Kate Rusby’s first non-Christmas album of original material in six years. With its anthemic chorus belted out with a blend of joyous gusto and enchanting harmonies by the... Read more →


Album of the Month: Kate Rusby's 20

Colin Randall writes: our new Album of the Month feature is intended to highlight records that may be new but are as likely to be old. They just need to be special. My own collection, split between two countries, runs... Read more →


Twelve Days of Winter #10. Eliza Carthy and Jon Boden: I Want A Hippopotamus for Christmas

Andrew Curry writes: There are some truly dreadful Christmas novelty songs, but some have a certain wit about them. I’m willing to stick my neck out here, and argue that I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas comes into this second... Read more →


Fairport's Cropredy, Towersey and far too many more: folk festivals in crisis

Colin Randall writes; Some years have passed since I wrote about folk music for The Daily Telegraph. My role as the paper's folk bloke - "right column wrong newspper," to quote Ian Anderson, blues musician and founding editor of the... Read more →


Cover Story: (61) Underneath the Stars. Kate Rusby, Voces8 or Western Illinois University Singers

July 2022 update; reposted because the clip of Kate Rusby's own singing of her charming song was leading to a dead end. It has now been replaced and is the last video shown in this article ... Choirs can work... Read more →