Return to Kielderside available for pre-order

We’re thrilled to herald the release of a new album by Kathryn. ‘Return to Kielderside’ is available for pre-order from Kathryn’s Bandcamp Shop! It’s available as a digital download and a limited edition CD. The release date is 1st November and the physical CD pre-orders will be sent out the week before. Each one is numbered and signed.

Kathryn describes her first album, released forty years ago:

“In 1984, while I was still at school, I released my first album ‘On Kielder Side’. It was a collection of mostly traditional Northumbrian tunes. We had borrowed a TEAC two track tape recorder from the local radio station for the weekend and all the recording was done in two days between 10am — 4pm in my parents’ kitchen. No mixing, no editing, just straight to tape! That was forty years ago; my music, and the way I record it, has changed a lot since then. But the idea of playing Northumbrian tunes with a group of friends is still at the heart of everything I do.

“On this forty-year anniversary I revisit some tracks from the original album alongside traditional tunes from the area and several new compositions. The new tunes are all inspired by, or in some way linked to, tunes from ‘On Kielder Side’.”