FOLK queen Kate Rusby comes to the Victoria Theatre in Halifax on Sunday, September 28.
She was voted Best Live Act at the 2006 BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards and received three nominations in other categories.
Kate, 34, has headlined national folk festivals and is one of the few folk singers to have been nominated for a Mercury Prize.
From her Mercury-nominated 1999 album Sleepless to 2007’s acclaimed solo CD Awkward Annie, she has been a key figure in England’s reinvigorated folk scene.
The ‘Barnsley Nightingale’ is a former Shelley High School pupil whose first solo public performance was at the Holmfirth Folk Festival as a teenager back in the late ’80s.
Tickets are £21.50 and £19.50 from the theatre box office on 01422 351158 or online at www.victoriatheatre.co.uk
On December 18, Kate will be at The Metrodome in Barnsley organised in association with the Friends of The Lamproom Theatre.
Her gig in South Yorkshire this Christmas has delighted its organisers who have called it Christmas Kate.
Kate will be joined on stage by her award-winning band.
They will be singing classics plus new songs from her latest album Awkward Annie. Not to be missed is the rousing Christmas finale – as Kate recreates the vigorous northern tradition of ‘village carols’ – mass community-led pub singalongs of sacred and profane festive fare.
South Yorkshire has a strong tradition of carol singing.
Hundreds of carollers cram into various pubs in the locality to join in the unashamedly joyous singing.
It’s a tradition Kate would be sure to be proud of.
Tickets for Kate’s concert are £20 from The Lamproom Theatre, Westgate, Barnsley, or on the ticket hotline number 01226 321741.
