If Charlie ‘Bird’ Parker had been reincarnated, less troubled, female and Northumbrian would he have been Kathryn Tickell? Of course not - she’s her own person! But just as the alto sax is simply not ...

Folk and chamber classical collide, but it's not always clear how to untangle the parts, or whether we even want to, as another entity entirely is created. The Side ensemble is a half-and-half meeting ...

Pupils at Hawthorn Primary School in Elswick, Newcastle-upon-Tyne received a surprise visit from Sting last Friday, joining Kathryn Tickell, in support of the In Harmony Newcastle Gateshead project ...

Pipe player Kathryn Tickell, pianist and singer Joe Stilgoe and percussionist Ruairi Glasheen travel from Quebec to Egypt in this week's playlist. Show more Kathryn Tickell - composer, performer and ...

Kathryn Tickell presents a session with Finnish fiddlers Frigg, American DJ Nickodemus shares his mixtape and there's a Road Trip to Russia. Over the past 15 years, Frigg have been thrilling audiences ...

Andrew Lloyd Webber, Ewan McGregor, Elton John's photos, Goldsmiths Prize winner Zadie Smith's NW, Rambert, Norman Ackroyd, War memorials Leonard Cohen, BalletBoyz, Contemporary war poetry J K Rowling ...

THESE guys were travelling a long way from home, bringing music from the far north east to Dorset – and they were particularly welcome. Kathryn and The Darkening – so named after the Northumbrian word ...

Mike Tickell (Kathryn's Dad) leads a riotous version of Cushy Butterfield.Mike Tickell (Kathryn's Dad) leads a riotous version of Cushy Butterfield. Available for over a year Cushy Butterfield ...

Award-winning Northumbrian roots musician Kathryn Tickell is to release her second album with The Darkening, cloud horizons on September 1 via Resilient Records. The new record will be available on CD ...

Kathryn Tickell attracts rather gentler, more formal commissions these days but the instructions that came with the heavy, beery suggestion her younger self would, not should, compose something in ...

Kathryn Tickell has been called ‘the best living advertisement for English folk music’. Deeply ‘traditional’, she’s very adventurous too - equally wonderful with an ancient air or improvising freely ...

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