We met up with fiddler Bríd Harper at the Cup Of Tae traditional music festival in Ardara in Co. Donegal this May bank holiday weekend.
in conversation with Jo Freya
by Fiona Heywood
Brian Peters checks out an exciting new face in English traditional music… Mossy Christian.
If we regard folk music as a spectrum, then Fay Hield leads an extraordinarily busy life at the performing end of that spectrum; another in the middle as an organiser; and at the other end as a well-respected academic in the music department of the University of Sheffield. These roles have never been mutually exclusive for we have performer-academics and organiser-musicians – but rarely have we had someone who fulfils all three roles.
