Kate Rusby affectionately known as ‘The Barnsley Nightingale’ was one of the first of a younger generation in the ‘New Wave’ of Folk that included Kathryn Roberts, Eliza Carthy, Cara Dillon, Seth Lakeman and many others. Since the heady days of Fairport Convention, Pentangle or June Tabor, the folk scene had begun a downward spiral as […]