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"Christine Kydd is a musician who brings warmth
and style to her work, and a unique ability to communicate instantly with
an audience or workshop group" Traditional singer A renowned interpreter and champion of the Scots song tradition, Christine has performed and recorded, over a number of years, with other singers and musicians to produce some of Scotland’s finest and often award - winning harmony vocal sounds, including successful and groundbreaking projects with Janet Russell, and in supertrio, Chantan. Christine loves working with other singers and musicians, and has been invited to sing and play with a number of combinations, including current projects: the fantastic Calluna (Anna Wendy Stevenson, Rebecca Knorr, Charlotte Peterson); on a programme of “Songs and Tunes of the Sea” with the wonderful multi- instrumentalist Norman Chalmers; with the brilliant, original singer from Ceolbeg, Barbara Dymock, in an exciting new harmony duo, Sinsheen. Christine performs and teaches in many contexts home and abroad, including at the National Centre for Excellence in Traditional Music, Plockton, Scotland. Also has been involved as founder of many community choirs in Scotland, including Sangstream, Sangschule, Angus Folk, Breakish Singers and JustSinginBirnam. She has appeared on TV in the UK, Europe, Russia and Japan, on radio at home and internationally. Concerts include numerous festivals (including Celtic Connections, Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Towersey, Whitby, Sidmouth, Orkney) in the UK, Europe (many including Northlands, Lorient), and festivals and tours include those in the USA, Canada, Russia, Europe. Her latest solo album, ‘Dark Pearls’, received excellent reviews. Launched on the Culburnie label, the album features Lorraine Jordan as guest musician. Never one to stand still creatively, Christine is currently working on a project involving the songs she’s written over a number of years. Quotes “I was listening to one of your CDs on the way over. Lovely scenery, and your beautiful singing - the perfect stress-relieving combination! Christine Kydd is a passionate advocate for Scottish traditional song, an accomplished performer herself; she has cajoled and encouraged many a reluctant learner around Scotland to sing. Her work with the group has given Calluna more of an edge. Led by Kydd, they took no prisoners in the snappy vocal setting of the scurrilous Cam ye oot o'France, which savagely lampoons George the First and, in the chilling Silken snood, a sense of betrayal and hopelessness was well conveyed in the tension of the harmonies. …enjoyable evening, not least from Kydd herself singing Michael Marra's Neil Gow's apprentice, and leading the assembly in Adam MacNaughtan's The yellow's on the broom.www.edinburghguide.com See other recordings. Read Christine's interview with Fiona Ritchie on the Thistle & Shamrock website (USA - thistle@npr.org). Download the Dark Pearls album song lyrics (pdf)
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