Nancy Kerr & Maddy Prior: Interpretation Work For Traditional Singers

Name: Nancy Kerr & Maddy Prior: Interpretation Work For Traditional Singers
Start: 2025-11-07T14:00:00+00:00
End: 2025-11-09T14:30:00+00:00
Location: Stones Barn

Schedule

Fri, 07 Nov, 2025 at 02:00 pm to Sun, 09 Nov, 2025 at 02:30 pm

UTC+00:00

Location

Stones Barn | Carlisle, EN

TITLE: Nancy Kerr & Maddy Prior: Interpretation Work For Traditional Singers
DATE: Friday 7th - 9th November 2025 (3 days)
PRICE: £355 (Deposit to secure place £150)
LED BY: Nancy Kerr & Maddy Prior
VENUE: Stones Barn CA6 6PW
PARTICIPANTS: Maximum 22
***£150 IS THE DEPOSIT PAYMENT ONLY. This will secure your place on the course. We will ask you to pay the balance some weeks before the course start date***
COURSE LEADER:
Nancy Kerr: Already a respected interpreter of traditional material, Nancy’s emergence as a writer of rare style has drawn comparisons to William Blake in her reawakening of a radical folk mythology as a backdrop for contemporary narratives about love and conflict, motherhood, migration, hardship and jubilation, and the tensions between rural and urban life.
Nancy is one of the most celebrated folk musicians of her generation, and has to date won 6 Folk Awards from BBC Radio 2: 2015 FOLK SINGER OF THE YEAR • HORIZON AWARD 2000 • BEST DUO 2003 and again in 2011 with James Fagan • BEST GROUP 2014 with The Full English • BEST ALBUM 2014 with The Full English. Nominated Best Original Song 2011 for Queen of Waters. Winner Best Album (Spiral earth 2011) for Twice Reflected Sun.
Nancy is also a university lecturer on the Folk Music Degree Course at Sheffield and has been instrumental in the education of young Folk musicians, passing on traditional music to the next generation. Nancy is an expert at leading/guiding/mentoring groups and has run some extraordinary and hugely enjoyable courses here in recent years.
COURSE CONTENT: Working with Nancy and Maddy is an amazing opportunity to see excellent performance, repertoire and interpretation skills in action. You will learn many different techniques that can be used to breathe life and your own authenticity into traditional songs. These will include: practice in identifying the bare bones of a song, semantic interpretation and highlighting, use of ornamentation and many more.

On-site residential accommodation includes a bed in a shared twin room (we do not offer single occupancy rooms). A cooked breakfast and towels are included. More info here: https://stonesbarn.co.uk/stay-onsite
You can find a list of nearby accommodation here: https://stonesbarn.co.uk/stay-nearby
Basic timetables are here: https://stonesbarn.co.uk/timetables
Cancellation policy: https://stonesbarn.co.uk/cancellation-policy
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