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| - English folk singer, fiddle player and songwriter, born in Sheffield in 1975. She is the daughter of Sandra Kerr and Ron Elliott (5) and is married to James Fagan, with whom she has played for many years as a duo. Kerr won 'Folk Singer of the Year' at the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards in 2015.
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| - Nancy Kerr (born 1975) is an English folk musician and songwriter, specialising in the fiddle and singing. Born in London, she now lives in Sheffield. She is the daughter of London-born singer-songwriter Sandra Kerr and Northumbrian piper Ron Elliott. She is the 2015 BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards %22Folk Singer of the Year%22.Kerr came to prominence in the early 1990s via a musical partnership with fellow fiddle player Eliza Carthy. The duo produced two albums - Eliza Carthy & Nancy Kerr (1993) and Shape of Scrape (1995) - before ceasing to work together. A retrospective collection of their work (plus three previously unreleased tracks) - On Reflection - was released in 2002.Kerr and her mother released an album together - Neat and Complete - in 1996.Since 1995 Kerr has mostly worked in a duo with Australian bouzouki player and singer James Fagan, whom she married in 2007. The duo won the Horizon Award at the inaugural BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards in 2000, and Best Duo at the same awards in both 2003 and 2011Between 1997 and 2008 they released six albums on the Fellside label - %22Starry Gazy Pie%22 (1997), %22Scalene%22 (with Sandra Kerr) (1998), %22Steely Water%22 (1999), %22Between The Dark and Light%22 (2002), %22Strands of Gold%22 (2006) and %22Station House%22 (with Robert Harbron) (2008). 2010 saw the production their first completely original collection of songs - %22Twice Reflected Sun%22, released 9 August 2010 on Navigator Records (NAV0041). First track of the album, Queen of Waters, was nominated for the Best Original Song category at the BBC Folk Awards in 2011.In 2008 the duo joined forces with concertina player Robert Harbron to form the trio Kerr Fagan Harbron, recording and touring the album Station House (Fellside CD 211).Kerr has also worked with folk/pop group Epona, Australian folk family band The Fagans and the Tim van Eyken band, amongst others.In 2010 she joined James Fagan, Richard Arrowsmith and Jess Arrowsmith to form %22Melrose Quartet%22 in her new home city of Sheffield. They released a live EP in 2011 called %22Live at Cheltenham%22 and a studio album %22Fifty Verses%22 in 2013. 2013 saw Kerr make up part of Fay Hield's %22The Full English%22 band to promote the on-line publication of the folk collections of the Vaughan Williams Memorial Library in Cecil Sharp House. The collective won %22Best Group%22 at the 2014 BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards and their CD %22The Full English%22 won %22Best Album%22 at the same ceremony. In 2014 Kerr was one of the key songwriters in %22The Elizabethan Session%22, a concert and CD commissioned by Folk By The Oak and The English Folk Dance and Song Society creating new music about the Elizabethan era.2014 saw Kerr release her first CD of original songs under her own name. Sweet Visitor was released on her own label Little Dish Records on 21 July 2014. A UK tour with %22The Sweet Visitor Band%22 (James Fagan, Rowan Rheingans, Tom Wright and Tim Yates) started on 18 November 2014.Nancy won %22Folk Singer of the Year%22 at the 2015 BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards.2015 saw the launch of %22Simpson Cutting Kerr%22, a trio with Kerr, Martin Simpson and Andy Cutting. Their debut CD %22Murmurs%22 is released on Topic Records on June 8th, 2015.
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