Kathryn Tickell has been called 'a genuine phenomenon', internationally-acclaimed for her magical musicianship on the Northumbrian pipes and fiddle. Harpist Corrina Hewat is one of the most distinctive, original and versatile artists on the contemporary Scottish scene. The duo have been working and touring together during 2006 and have recorded a CD titled "The Sky Didn't Fall".
Kathryn Tickell's roots are in the North Tyne Valley of Northumberland, where many of her relatives still play traditional music. She took up the Northumbrian smallpipes at the age of nine and by the age of thirteen had won all the traditional open smallpipes competitions and was rapidly making a name for herself as a fiddle player, turning professional by the age of sixteen. Kathryn has worked with many notable musicians including the Chieftains and Sting and toured worldwide with the KathrynTickell Band. She is a noted composer for the theatre and other media and has made many broadcasts and appearances on such shows as Later With Jools Holland and at Carnegie Hall, New York. She has recorded at least ten CDs.
Corrina Hewat was born in Edinburgh, and grew up largely around Inverness in the Scottish Highlands. After a few years learning fiddle and piano, Corrina took up the Scottish harp, or clarsach - Scotland's most ancient national instrument. After years of studying classical harp with the late Sanchia Pielou at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama, Corrina switched to a BA degree in Jazz, Popular and Contemporary Music at the Leeds College of Music, becoming the first ever harpist to take the course, and graduating with honours in 1993. Over the last ten years, Corrina Hewat has emerged as one of the most distinctive, original and versatile artists on the contemporary Scottish scene. Synthesising the energies and idioms of traditional, jazz and classical music, in formats ranging from entirely solo through duo's and trios to a 31-piece "folk orchestra" -The Unusual Suspects. Corrina's combined talents as a vocalist, instrumentalist, composer and arranger have won steadily increasing acclaim among critics, fellow musicians and audiences alike.
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