Kate Rusby live in concert.
ON TOUR

Kate Rusby

13
critic concert reviews
folk

How Good Are They LIVE?

Live Rating  

75
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Based on 
13
critic concert
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Last 12 Months Rating  
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Critic Consensus

Based on 13 concert reviews, the critic consensus is that Kate Rusby is rated as an enjoyable live performer, with some notable strengths. Kate Rusby concert reviews describe live shows and performances as funky.

ON TOUR

Moseley Park, Birmingham, United Kingdom (August 30);

Latest Release

Light Years (December 1, 2023)

Artist Info

Genre
folk
Origin
Barnsley, United Kingdom (12/4/1973) (12/4/1973)
Bio
Kate Rusby (born 4 December 1973 in Barnsley; currently based in Penistone, Yorkshire) is an English folksinger and one of the most popular folk singers of traditional English folk songs. She was at the centre of the folk revival in the 1990s which occurred with the coming of age of the children of those who were part of the 60s folk revival.
Has Performed With

Critic Concert Reviews

Louder Than War (UK)

May 22, 2019
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Kate Rusby: The Plaza, Stockport – live review

Buzz Magazine (UK)

December 18, 2017
80
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The Barnsley Nightingale fluttered on to the stage wearing a sparkly dress of stars enthusiastically eager to begin her annual popular Christmas show, this time promoting new album; .

Louder Than War (UK)

December 10, 2017
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It’s not Christmas until the local Round Table Santa has paid a call, you’ve decked your hall and you’ve been to see the annual Kate Rusby Christmas show.

Mancunian Matters (UK)

May 15, 2017
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Award-winning singer Kate Rusby put on a folk masterclass as she continued her 25-year anniversary tour at the Stockport Plaza. Accompanied by her husband Damien O’Kane on guitar and banjo, Duncan Lyall on double bass and moog (a funky old analog synthesizer), Nick Cooke on diatonic accordion and Steve Byrn

Louder Than War (UK)

October 4, 2016
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Its ornate concert room allows her and her wizard (as in really good not dressed in pointy hats and capes although hang on…) band to start to get to grips with playing the new material in a setting in front of a partisan Lancashire audience.

Birmingham Live (UK)

May 14, 2016
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There is a singular aspect that we all have in common and this is that we must all hail from somewhere. Though our relationship to this starting point may not always be so uniform. Our affinity with the “homeland” will differ greatly from one person to the next. Some of us will pack up and ship off the first

Record Collector Magazine (UK)

November 20, 2012
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For the final date of her 20 tour, folk songstress Kate Rusby was accompanied by a larger band than usual, the emphasis, unsurprisingly, on songs from her 2-CD of new recordings from her 20-year career.

Past critic reviews published in

The Telegraph (UK), The Arts Desk (UK), eGigs (UK)

Image Credit

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