Kate Rusby

One of Britain's most celebrated contemporary folk singer/songwriters, Kate Rusby bears a gentle sound imbued with poetic grace and traces of the traditional Celtic scene from which she initially emerged. After earning widespread acclaim in 1999 for her Mercury Prize-nominated second album, Sleepless, she spent the next decade establishing herself as a perennial star of the U.K. folk scene with albums like 2003 Underneath the Stars and 2007's Awkward Annie. Prior to 2010's all-original Make the Light, Rusby's albums had generally consisted of a mix of traditional folk songs, w...