ARTIST: The Kathryn Tickell Band
TITLE: Signs
LABEL: Black Crow
GENRE: Folk
SOURCE: CD
BITRATE: 174 kbps avg
PLAYTIME: 53:32
RELEASE DATE: 1994-00-00
RIP DATE: 2009-01-19
Track List
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1. Signs 4:28
2. Sully's/Halibut 4:10
3. Phil The Greek 5:13
4. 12th Of January7Mary MacMaster 4:16
5. F Tunes 3:15
6. Rainbow/Farewell To Tchernobyl 4:17
7. Brian's Jigs 3:24
8. Answerphone Set 3:56
9. Four Wishes 4:07
10. Saturday Night 4:56
11. Abid 3:29
12. Polkas 4:08
13. Westoe 3:53
Release Notes:
Kathryn Tickell (b. 8th June 1967) is an English player of the Northumbrian
smallpipes and fiddle. She has recorded over a dozen albums, and toured widely.
Kathryn Tickell took up the smallpipes aged nine, inspired by her family -
especially her father Mike, who was heavily involved in the local traditional
music scene - and by the music of an older generation of traditional musicians
such as Willie Taylor, Will Atkinson, Joe Hutton, Richard Moscrop, Billy Pigg
and Tom Hunter. By thirteen, Kathryn had won all the traditional open smallpipes
competitions, and was also making a name as an accomplished player of the
Shetland fiddle style who she learned from the virtuoso Shetland fiddle master
Tom Anderson at Stirling University's traditional folk summer school. [1]
Kathryn has also incorporated the Border pipes into her traditional ensemble.
[1] Her family is from the North Tyne Valley area of Northumberland.
Her first album, On Kielder Side, was released in 1984. In the same year she was
named the official piper for the Lord Mayor of Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
Kathryn turned professional in 1986. She has since toured Europe regularly and
recorded with internationally-renowned performers like The Chieftains, The Boys
of the Lough, and Sting.
In 1990 she formed the Kathryn Tickell Band. As of 2005, the band currently
consists of Peter Tickell (Fiddle), Julian Sutton (Melodeon), Ian Stephenson
(Guitar, acoustic bass guitar), and Kathryn Tickell (Northumbrian Pipes and
Fiddle).
Two ex-members of north-eastern traditional music luminaries the High Level
Ranters have appeared on her albums - Tom Gilfellon on "On Kielder Side" and
Alistair Anderson on "Borderlands" (1986). The latter album included to a
tribute to Wark football team.
Several other pipers have appeared on her albums - Troy Donockley on "Debatable
Lands", Patrick Molard on "The Gathering" and Martyn Bennett on "Borderlands".
"Debatable Lands" includes "Our Kate", a composition by Kathryn Tickell
dedicated to Catherine Cookson. Jazz saxophonist Andy Sheppard wrote a piece
with her in 2001. It was premiered at the opening of the Gateshead Millennium
Bridge.
In 2002 Kathryn became director of "Folkestra North". It is a project to develop
young talented musicians, aged between 14 and 19.
www.kathryntickell.com