12 Facts About Nancy Kerr

Nancy Kerr is an English folk musician and songwriter, specialising in the fiddle and singing.

Nancy Kerr is a Principal Lecturer in Folk Music at Newcastle University.

Nancy Kerr was the 2015 BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards "Folk Singer of the Year".

Nancy Kerr came to prominence in the early 1990s via a musical partnership with fellow fiddle player Eliza Carthy.

Since 1995, Nancy Kerr has worked extensively with Australian bouzouki player and singer James Fagan, whom she married in 2007.

Nancy Kerr has performed in the trio Simpson Cutting Kerr, with Martin Simpson and Andy Cutting, whose debut CD Murmurs was released on Topic Records on 8 June 2015.

In 2014 Nancy Kerr was a key songwriter in The Elizabethan Session, a concert, CD and film commissioned by Folk by the Oak and The English Folk Dance and Song Society creating new music about the Elizabethan era.

In November 2015, Nancy Kerr was one of four songwriters commissioned by Folk by the Oak and The English Folk Dance and Song Society to write and tour a production called Sweet Liberties looking at the history of British parliament and democracy.

In 2017 and 2018 Nancy Kerr was one of five musicians who formed Shake the Chains, a project that explored "the role songs have played in social change, resistance and protest".

In 2014, Nancy Kerr released Sweet Visitor, her first CD of original songs under her own name, on her own label Little Dish Records.

In 2017 and 2018, Nancy Kerr played the Mother in a production of Peter Bellamy's folk opera The Transports.

In May 2020, Nancy Kerr recorded 31 new arrangements of songs by Leon Rosselson as a series of videos published on her YouTube channel Nancy Kerr Music.