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Artist
Kate Fletcher
12+ albums
Paganfolkcelticpagan folkunder 2000 listeners
about
Kate Fletcher is a singer/songwriter and folk musician based in England. She has a long time interest in the Pagan folk customs and Ancient Ballads of Britain. You can find out more about her on her website: www.katefletcher.co.uk As well as singing, Kate plays guitar, kantele and double reed instruments solo and with her partner Corwen in a duo. www.rigantona.co.uk About the CD, Fruit: She is defiantly a solo artist, affording us an intimate glimpse into her own distinctive and private creative world. Hers is an unusual and intriguing soundscape, rejoicing in a subtle and unpretentious use of a variety of instrumental colours and timbres. With unobtrusive production by Robert Harbron, there's a homespun, primitive immediacy to the proceedings that's really attractive. Kate's songwriting is honest and succinct, understated and refreshingly non-self-indulgent. The standout tracks for me are highly contrasted: on one hand the disturbing, stark and broodingly strange Midnight, which tells of a modern-day haunting, and on the other the comforting haven of the beautiful Beyond The Silence. Kate's work is quietly stunning. (Stirrings Magazine) Kate's Biog: Raised on porridge and song in a family of eccentric musicians in Reading. Great ambition to be a diplomat so studied languages very hard, and lived in France and Spain. Got a mad idea to walk back to Spain one day... Wrote my first song at 19 and worked with my brother Colin on crafting and recording songs. Lived in Fra
