Kathryn Tickell

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Kathryn Tickell, OBE (born 8 June 1967), is an English musician best known for her use of the Northumbrian smallpipes and fiddle.

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Music career

Kathryn Tickell was born in Walsall, Staffordshire, to parents who came from Northumberland and who returned home with the family when Kathryn was seven years old. Her paternal grandfather played accordion, fiddle, and organ. Mike Tickell's father performed and her mother performed at the concertina. When she was six, her first instrument was a piano. She picked up a set of Northumbrian smallpipes sent home by her father, who intended them for someone else a year later. She discovered that the pipes rewarded her effort after being frustrated by fiddle and piano. Willy Taylor, Will Atkinson, Joe Hutton, and Billy Pigg were all inspired by her older music, such as Willy Taylor, Will Atkinson, Joe Hutton, and Billy Pigg.

She had a name in festivals and winning pipe competitions at thirteen. On Kielder Side (Saydisc, 1984), she recorded at her parents' house when she was seventeen years old. She was named Official Piper to the Lord Mayor of Newcastle in 1981, a position that had been vacant for 13 years since George Atkinson's appointment for a single year in 1971. She formed the Kathryn Tickell Band, with Karen Tweed on accordion, bass, and guitar, and the band's first album on Black Crow Records in 1991. Peter Tickell on fiddle, Julian Sutton on melodeon, and Joss Clapp on guitar continued the band's lineup later that evening. The Kathryn Tickell Band was the first act to perform traditional folk music at the Prosecu Concerts in London in 2001.

When it was led by Simon Jeffes, she performed with the Penguin Cafe Orchestra. She met Jeffes when she was in her teens and wrote "Organum" for her. She returned to the Orchestra a decade later, after Jeffes' death, when it was mainly run by Arthur.

Tickell has appeared on The Chieftains, The Boys of the Lough, Jimmy Nail, Linda Thompson, Alan Parsons, and Andy Sheppard. Sting, who hails from Newcastle upon Tyne, has performed live with him, and has appeared on his albums The Soul Cages (1991), Ten Summoner's Tales (1993), and The Last Ship (2013).

The High Level Ranters, two former members of the North East England traditional music band, have appeared on her albums: Tom Gilfellon on Kielder Side and Alistair Anderson on Borderlands (1986). The Wark football team was included in the latter collection. Many other artists have appeared on her albums: Troy Donockley on Debatable Lands, Patrick Molard on The Gathering, and Martyn Bennett on Borderlands. "Our Kate," a piece by Kathryn Tickell dedicated to Catherine Cookson, was included in the Debatable Lands.

She competed in the Sunderland A.F.C. in 2011. The charity Foundation of Light is a charity.

Kathryn Tickell and the Side, with Ruth Wall on Celtic harp, Louisa Tuck on cello, and Amy Thatcher on Amy Thatcher. The group performs a blend of classical and classical music. In 2014, they debuted an eponymous album.

Kathryn Tickell & The Darkening, Tickell's latest band, formed in 2018, with whom she also released the album Hollowbone in 2019. This project represents a new approach with new content. In the track "Nemesis," based on Roman-era texts and a melody by Emperor Hadrian's court musician Mesomedes, there is a semi-imaginary incursion into Northumbrian music's prehistory. In "O-U-t Spells Out," there is a glimpse of ancestral shamanism. The album was heralded with critical praise in The Observer and the Financial Times, as well as the band's numerous national tours in its first two years of existence.

In 1987, the early part of her career was chronicled in The Long Tradition, a TV documentary. Northumbria, Kathryn Tickell's latest film, appeared in 2006. Tickell founded the Young Musicians Fund of the Tyne and Wear Foundation in 1997 to help young people in northeastern England who wanted to learn music. She founded the Festival of the North East, and Folkworks' artistic director Deborah Powell served from 2009 to 2013.

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Awards and honors

• Official Piper for the Lord Mayor of Newcastle upon Tyne, 1984
• Musician of the Year, BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards, 2004, 2013
• The Queen's Medal for Music, 2009
• Best Traditional Album, Spiral Earth Awards, Northumbrian Voices
• Order of the British Empire, 2015
• Honorary Degree, Open University, 2015
• Deputy Lieutenant of Northumberland, 2015
• Honorary Degree (M.Mus), Durham University, 2017
• Honorary Degree (D.Mus), Newcastle University, 2019