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Review: Kathryn Tickell and The Darkening - Cloud Horizons

From her first album when she was 16, Kathryn Tickell seemed to arrive on the public stage fully formed as a musician. From those early days she’s always found her own way of expressing herself, while adding significantly to Northumbrian culture. Her back catalogue is huge and varied in the various directions she’s taken her music, to the point that it’s hard now to imagine where Northumbrian traditional music would be without her positive creativity and influence....