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Kate Anna Rusby (born 4 December 1973〔("KateRusby.com: Biography" ) ''KateRusby.com'' (Retrieved: 19 July 2009)〕) is an English folk singer and songwriter from Penistone, Barnsley. Sometimes known as "The Barnsley Nightingale", she has headlined various British national folk festivals, and is one of the most noted contemporary English folk singers. In 2001 ''The Guardian'' described her as "a superstar of the British acoustic scene."〔Denselow, Robin; ("Kate Rusby – Queen Elizabeth Hall, London" ) ''Guardian.co.uk'', 28 June 2001 (Retrieved: 19 July 2009)〕 In 2007 the BBC website described her as "The first lady of young folkies". She is one of the few folk singers to have been nominated for the Mercury Prize.〔Wilson, Sue; ("Lost love and other heartbreaks" ) ''Independent.co.uk'', 18 June 2001 (Retrieved: 19 July 2009)〕〔("No sure bets for Mercury" ) ''news.BBC.co.uk'', 7 September 1999 (Retrieved: 19 July 2009)〕 ==Career== Rusby was born into a family of musicians in 1973 in Barnsley, England.〔 After learning to play the guitar, the fiddle and the piano, as well as to sing, she played in many local folk festivals as a child and adolescent, before joining (and becoming the lead vocalist of) the all-female Celtic folk band the Poozies. Her breakthrough album came in 1995. A collaboration with her friend and fellow Barnsley folk singer Kathryn Roberts was simply titled ''Kate Rusby & Kathryn Roberts''. In 1997, with the help of her family, she recorded and released her first solo album, ''Hourglass''. Since then she has gone on to receive acclaim in her home country and abroad and her family continues to help her with all aspects of her professional career. Rusby was also a member of the folk group Equation, later to be replaced by Cara Dillon. The early line-up also featured Rusby's erstwhile performing partner Kathryn Roberts and Mercury-nominated artist Seth Lakeman. Their first EP, ''In Session'', had a small commercial release and lead to them signing a major record deal with WEA. The previously unreleased song "Wandering Soul" was Rusby's contribution to the soundtrack for ''Billy Connolly's World Tour of New Zealand'', an eight-part BBC television documentary series originally broadcast in November 2004. A collaboration with Ronan Keating saw Rusby riding high in the UK Singles Chart; their duet "All Over Again" peaked at No. 6 in June 2006. She also made a vocal contribution to the successful debut solo album of Roddy Woomble, the lead singer of Idlewild. In the same year her cover of The Kinks' "The Village Green Preservation Society" was used as the theme tune to the BBC One television sitcom ''Jam & Jerusalem''. Rusby has written several new songs for the latest series of ''Jam & Jerusalem'', and is credited as being responsible for the show's music. Launched at the 2007 Cambridge Folk Festival, the album ''Awkward Annie'' was released on 3 September 2007. "The Village Green Preservation Society" is included as a bonus track. 2008 saw the release of ''Sweet Bells'', an album of traditional Christmas songs interpreted by Rusby. In 2010, Rusby released the album ''Make the Light'', a collection of self-penned songs, and in 2011 issued a second collection of Christmas songs titled ''While Mortals Sleep''. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Kate Rusby」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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