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14/01/2010

Fay Hield Joins ABM - New Album on Topic Records

Fay Hield has been singing traditional songs from an alarmingly early age. She helped form the female a capella quartet The Witches Of Elswick and recorded and toured with them for four years.

After a year or two off the folk radar, Fay returned to public view via occasional performances with partner Jon Boden. In 2009 a new concert line-up with Rob Harbron (English Acoustic Collective) and Sam Sweeney (Bellowhead) came into being.
 
This spicy stew of songs and ballads, catches and caprices is showcased on her debut solo CD - Looking Glass, due for release in 2010 on the prestigious Topic Records. Instrumentation includes fiddles, concertina, nyckelharpa, symphonie and guitar. The sound is at once crafty and nimble, airy and graceful, full of zest and nuance, sensitive to the tradition yet utterly distinctive.
 
Fay leads with a voice whose rough edges are still thrillingly intact, and which goes straight to the living heart of the songs.

 

Fay will be touring the new album 6-18 September and 1-6 December 2010 and is available for summer festivals. Please ask for a promo copy of Looking Glass, available shortly.

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