Folk Super-Band Kathryn Tickell & The Darkening.

Cloud Horizons is the latest album from folk super-band Kathryn Tickell & The Darkening.

Launching at the start of September this is your first chance to hear and watch Kathryn and her band perform Cloud Horizons. This is also one of the rare occasions when all six band members will be present to give a full 6-piece “album version”.

Based in the shadow of Hadrian’s Wall yet reaching out to the wider world, Kathryn Tickell & The Darkening explore the connecting threads of music, landscape and people over a period of almost 2000 years. Songs range from themes of freedom, nature and venturing out into the world after times of darkness, to a Roman inscription with links to Libya and Syria magnetically pulled into the 21st century by Amen-inspired breakbeats, ominous vocals and the wildest of piping…

Named after the old Northumbrian word for twilight, The Darkening is made up of four North-East England-based members: Kathryn Tickell (Northumbrian smallpipes, fiddle, vocals), Amy Thatcher (accordion, synth, clogs, vocals), Kieran Szifris (octave mandolin), Joe Truswell (drums, percussion, programming, plus Stef Conner from Cambridge (vocals, lyres, sistrum) and Josie Duncan from the Isle of Lewis (vocals, clarsach). Together these dazzling musicians create musical magic; dynamic and unique “Ancient Northumbrian Futurism”.

The band is keen to ensure as many people as possible can watch the live stream and so you can set your own price to watch and support the musician, artists and technicians bringing you the production.