Kate Locksley is a singer of folk songs, broadsides, and other historical music. She is the alto(ish) in The Teacups, a vibrant vocal quartet based in Newcastle upon Tyne, where she studied Folk and Traditional Music as an undergraduate, and has recently completed Masters degree based around the study of social protest in broadside ballads. Kate also performs with an all-female unaccompained trio, Wychwood, with Kat Davidson and Bryony Bainbridge, and in Night Fall with fiddle player Kev Lees (Folkestra, Last Orders) and Dave Wood (Malinky, Tom McConville). She also loves to perform solo, unaccompanied, feeling that it is both the ultimate vulnerability and a source of enormous strength. 

Finally getting to grips with performance during her studies at Newcastle, Kate has sung at venues of all shapes and sizes, from a flooded basement, to a dimly lit underground tunnel, to folk clubs up and down the country, to Hall One at the mighty Sage Gateshead. She will usually sing anything you like, anywhere you like, if you ask her nicely. 

Maker of Northumbrian Small Pipes and Border Pipes. More information is available on my website at www.northumbrianpipes.co.uk

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