Previously Appearing at Wickham was...
Kate Rusby
Forever proud to call herself a folk singer, Kate’s beautiful, expressive vocals never fail to connect the emotional heart of a song to that of her audience. The crossover appeal Kate enjoys is unprecedented for a folk singer and has been achieved without resort to compromise. We’ll be welcoming Kate on Friday 3rd August 2018.
As early as 1999, aged just 26, Kate was named as one of the Top Ten Folk Voices of the Century. Everything she has done since has confirmed the foresight of those who bestowed that honour. From being a nominee for 1999’s Mercury prize – almost unheard of for a folk singer both then and now – for her stunningly assured second solo album, Sleepless, to 2016’s enthralling Life In A Paper Boat, Kate has stayed true to her folk and acoustic roots.
Kate Rusby appeared in 2018
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AWWWWW!!! How amazing, actual lovely, hilarious Matt Lucas likes HAND ME DOWN!!! 😃🎉❤️😊
Well thank you for your lovey message and thank you baked potato for bringing me sunshine every morning with your fun. I salute you 🥰☀️🌈❤️
It’s a breath of fresh air. It’s happy, soothing, sing along music. I can’t wait for Hand Me Down II. 😁
Wow, just wow!!! Two amazing people loving each other!!! It is an amazing album though!!! And the ‘littlest hobo’ is a massive tear jerker! 😍
The Littlest Hobo theme is superb 💖 such a wonderful album 💝🙌👏👏👏👏👏 xx
Lovely album, all of it, but you've done something really special with Maybe Tomorrow.
It’s such an amazing album. ❤️ Cover in Kate Rusby styleee of Thank you Baked Potato? 😀 xx
It's such an amazing album, love it! 😍 xxx
Got mine yesterday and I love it Kate's voice is so calming in stressy covid times. Best online purchase this year by far
It’s a great album been listening to it in its entirety quite regularly over the past week and like every single track, which is a rarity by any album!!!
What is lovely about this album is hearing a singer with a real accent. I'm bored to tears with mid Atlantic or faux London accents. It is a beautiful album
Love Hand Me Down, cracking album. Current favourite track is Everglow
A Wonderfully happy album, love it. Thank you Kate and family..😁..xxx
I love this album soooo much !! It will always forever more remind me of lockdown ❤️
Amazing 🤩 so love this album. Lockdown sanity has been provided by Kate Rusby, Billy Lockett and Sophie Ellis Bextor. Three completely different musical styles but each kept the nation upbeat.
Yep she’s phenomenal in everything she does and deserve wider higher acclaim and exposure that’s for sure. Love love love the version of Coldplay’s “Everglow” 💕
It's a great album. My fav tracks are If I Had A Boat followed by Manic Monday.
I love Everglow track 2 reminds me of my Gran sadly missed for 43years but still my diamond 💕
What a beautiful album form start to finish....the arrangements are sublime and beautifully played...production per usual is as good as it gets: a sonic celebration to match the lilting, heartfelt beauty of Kate's voice...have to admit a few tears while listening ...Damien's guitar always so tasty and "side-themed" to lend an extra path on which to walk beside the main theme....Ron Block's beautiful touch on banjo..trying hard to describe this music and failing ! a great album
We love it too ! It’s a really fab album Kate
It is such a lovely lovely album!! 💕💕💕
Love the new album. Matt Lucas is amazing xx❤️😁🌈🌞😘
It’s my happy, happy listening.... thank you so much for making it x
Such an outstanding album! I am also a huge fan of Coldplay, but I think Kate’s version of Everglow is better than theirs! (I actually think Chris Martin would agree!)
The littlest Hobo was one of my favourites on the album 😊
Just got 'Hand Me Down' and played it in the car yesterday. Love the songs. 😊
Wow, you little pop star Kate. Great stuff from you and Damien. ❤️
HAPPY BIRTHDAY to my fabulous, kind hearted, beautiful, outrageously talented husband Damien O'Kane 😃🎂🥂🍾🎉 ❤️
Lots of you commented on the Singy Songy Sessions how brilliant he is, and I agree!! 😊 He not only played most of the instruments on HAND ME DOWN but also produced it and engineered it, edited the videos and a million other things!! Please check out his own music, if you love it, send some likes his way and if you like it why not buy some 👍 especially the album BANJOPHONY with Ron Block of Alison Krauss and Union Station banjo wizard who also played on Hand Me Down. Thanks Ron and even more thanks to the Birthday Boy.... my beautiful Damien O’Kane, my hero. ❤️❤️❤️❤️🎉🍹🍻🥂🎂🍾
Aww how lovely 😍. Happy birthday, Damien. You are such an amazingly multi-talented duo. Love all of your music and can't wait to see you both again 😁 xx
Happy birthday Damien! And thank you both for all your amazing music! 🎂🎂🎂🎉🎉🎉👏👏👏
Playing ‘Hand me down’ as I’m writing this. So glad you both found each other and compliment each other so well. HAPPY BIRTHDAY Damien Xxx
Happy birthday and thank u for the great music sessions. Xx
We wish Damien a very happy birthday today. I bet Kate along with the girls have some awesome things planned to help you celebrate your special day. Have fun and enjoy. XOXO
Happy Birthday Damien! Hope you have a fabulous, madcap, funfilled day 🎂🍻
Happy birthday Damien thank you for all the fantastic music
Happy Birthday Damien. Have a great day and thank you for your wonderful music 🎶
Happy Birthday to Damien! You are a talented player along with your wife! Love Haven CD from Flook! Will give a listen to your other CDs. Keep playing the awesome music!
Love listening to both of you, maybe a Kate & Damien album in the future would be fab, as Damiens voice is great. Happy birthday wishes 😘🥂🍾
Och he’s a bonnie birthday boy right enough with a cracking voice ...it would be great to hear yous sing a duet on the Singy Songy sessions ...please!!!
Damien, I have your album ‘Avenging and Bright’. A great series of tracks. Brilliant. Happy birthday to you.
Happy birthday Damien. I hope you're having a great day 😊
Happy Birthday to Damien! I happened to be born in the same town as Alison Krauss three months apart.
Happy birthday to a fabulous husband and musical comrade!! 😊🎉🎉🎸🥁🎂😢🎸🎉🎉😊
Happy Birthday Damien! Hope you’re having an amazing family day!
Happy birthday Damien have a beautiful day with Kate and your girls and dogs. Keep on singing Kate. Are you all coming to Nottingham soon. Xx thank you for the music you give us on stage you are all beautiful gifted and brilliant
Happy belated Birthday, Damien! I hope you had a good day. I'm looking forward to hearing your music.
Happy birthday Damien have a wonderful day🥳
Congratulations! Your song "Raven's Wing" is still on my alltime folk favourites list :-)
Happy Birthday young man, have a gud un.
Happy birthday fella ✌
Hope he sings you many lullabies...that song is so beautiful. Greetings from a fan in New York married to a Brit.
Happy Birthday Damien! :)
Happy Birthday Damien! Have a nice cup of Yorkshire tea to celebrate 😀
Aw yey!!! And here is the video we made for 'FRIDAY I'M IN LOVE' ❤️ from my new album 'HAND ME DOWN'. We asked you a few weeks ago to send us pictures of the things you LOVE the most, and so many of you sent in photos, each and every one a little piece of treasure, it's a real honour to have them all here in our video. Thank you.🙏😊🥂🎉🌈
These crazy times have made us re-evaluate all that is truly precious, here is your treasure. It's Friday and I'm In Love.❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
Ha ha ha I made the video "fried egg I'm in love!" .... (this stunning joke only occurred to me when I saw the video) Lovely version❤
My Billie is a video star lol thank you for adding her x
I love this album of retakes that you created! Lovely versions of these songs. My favorite is “True Colors” I love what you did with that one. Please come to the States when things get better so I can get to see and hear you❤️
Love this album, so beautiful. Love the video, great to see my Ha’penny collie in there. Thank you too for all the singy songy sessions - a real tonic in shielding. Xxx
My cheeky Poppy dog is on the first pic!!! Made my day. Gorgeous version of one of my favourite songs ❣️ xxx
My copy of the album arrived yesterday and I played it, bopping around the kitchen while I was supposed to be cooking! It's a great album and I loved the stories that go with each track. Some of them made me laugh; I especially loved the story of Kate and sister wearing one leg warmer each 🤣🤣🤣
Absolutely beautiful. It’s a lovely album and all of your videos have been wonderful.
Yey my son tristan made the video 😍❤ he's so happy thankyou so much. Album is amazing ❤😘 we love you 😁 xxxxx
an extra special song from an extra special album made even more special with all those memories encased in the video 👏👏 and even better when I spotted photos of my alltime heroes of the year - The Young Bangellers 💖 not forgetting of course various Damien O'Kane Family and Kate Rusby Family photos and every other starring memory. Bring on the roadtrips 👌
As always wonderful. You've kept us going over the past months. Thank you for your wonderful music. Xx
Beautiful video! Thank you so much for everything you have done over the last few months to help us all get through these crazy times. I listen to “Three Little Birds” every morning before I start my work day in school. 💜
Yes!!!!! My gorgeous grandson made an appearance on the vid brilliant!!!!! Thank you so.much !!!!
Fabulous.....! My two little dogs are in the VT, thank you. I love the new album so much, I was toe tapping and bu buming in the supermarket with my earphones in. I looked and am a bit bonkers, but so what, I just love the tracks. Ta K,D & girlies Xxxx
we cried so much when we watched this brilliant video, our beloved pony kitty (1min 55 ) made the cut, sadly two weeks ago after 25years of fun friendship and love she had to be put to sleep but to see her in the video with all the other lovely photos filled our hearts with love thankyou love Steph & Rose , kitty was put to sleep on a friday this will always be her song xx
Thank you so much my daughter is near crying when she saw our picture couldn’t of brightened up a Friday evening any better x
This is amazing. What makes it even better (for me) is that one of the images I sent in has been used. It's me holding my Grans, precious little hand. She died a short while after the photo was taken and today, we had the internment of her ashes. So, it has made me feel especially warm and wonderful that the picture has been chosen and the video released today. Thank you..xx
Fab album and my beautiful granddaughter is in the video... Thank you Kate Rusby and team😍😍
This is a beautiful cover 💕as is the whole album x one of my lockdown memories x my daughter is first time mum to Sam now 16 months and has lived with me throughout lockdown, still is x we were driving along and I was reading the sleeve contents and we were both blubbing and sooo emotional - beautiful xx love your voice 💕💕my favourite album xx
A lovely video and honoured that my photo is on there as well with a racehorse I have shares in. Best of all your album is quite simply stunning and been played very many times in the last fortnight.
I absolutely love this version Kate and Damien is as always an amazing instrumentalist. 🥰
Kate Rusby you're such an inspiration to me, whenever I'm feeling down u always pick me up! Love u so much x
Thank you for including my pic! So excited. It's a great version too x
What a gorgeous video! It is amazing to see so many precious pictures!! ❤
Every song is a winner. Thank you. I enjoyed.
Its a great album & I'm playing it continually in the car. Think my fav tracks are Manic Monday & If I Had A Boat.💕
