Fay Hield
| Fay Hield | |
|---|---|
 Fay Hield at the Warwick Folk Festival, July 2011 | |
| Background information | |
| Genres | Folk |
| Occupations | Folk singer |
| Instruments | Vocals |
| Years active | 1999-present |
| Associated acts | Fay Hield Trio |
| Website | Official Site |
Fay Hield is a traditional English folk singer.[1]
Career
Looking Glass, released September 2010, was her debut solo album.[2] The material consists mainly of traditional songs and ballads.[3] Hield started gigging her new album as the Fay Hield Trio, made up of Rob Harbron (English Acoustic Collective) and Sam Sweeney (Bellowhead). Fay Hield was nominated for the Horizon Award at the 2010 BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards.
Hield was part of The Witches of Elswick, with whom she recorded two CDs in their six years together.[4]
As an academic, Hield is a Teaching Associate in Ethnomusicology at Sheffield University. Hield completed her PhD thesis "English Folk Singing and the Construction of Community" in 2010 at the University of Sheffield.[5] She began lecturing at Sheffield in Spring 2012. She is also a consultant for the AHRC funded 'Music Communities' research project conducted at the University of Manchester. Hield also guest lectures at other educational establishments, including the Leeds College of Music.
Hield runs events as well. Along with her partner Jon Boden she runs two folk clubs – Royal Traditions (Dungworth) and helps to run Bright Phoebus (Sheffield).[6] She also established a community music organisation in 2010, and ran the first Soundpost Singing Weekend in 2011.
Orfeo, released May 2012, is Hield's second album, and sees the launch of a new line-up, Fay Hield & The Hurricane Party (Jon Boden, Rob Harbron, Sam Sweeney & Andy Cutting).
Discography
- Looking Glass (2010)
- Orfeo (May 2012)
With BACCApella
- The Haworth Set (1999)
With The Witches of Elswick
- Out of Bed (2003)
- Hell's Belles (2005)
Personal life
Fay and her partner, folk singer Jon Boden, have a daughter, born 2006, and a son, born 2009.
References
- ↑ "Fay Hield". Topic Records. Retrieved 2012-11-17.
- ↑ Robin Denselow. "Fay Hield: Looking Glass | CD review | Music". The Guardian. Retrieved 2012-11-17.
- ↑ Biography on official site
- ↑ "Fay Hield". Topic Records. Retrieved 2012-11-17.
- ↑ "English Folk Singing and the Construction of Community - White Rose Etheses Online". Etheses.whiterose.ac.uk. 2011-06-21. Retrieved 2012-11-17.
- ↑ "Fay Hield". Topic Records. Retrieved 2012-11-17.