Sue Harris | |
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 Harris on stage at Greenwich, London, 1982 | |
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| Instrument(s) | oboe, hammered dulcimer, voice |
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Sue Harris is an English musician classically trained as an oboeist, but best known for her folk music performances with the hammered dulcimer. [1] [2]
Harris is fluent in reading and writing music and switched from her original instrument, the oboe, to the dulcimer in the mid-1970s. In making that switch, she became one of the foremost performers on that folk instrument, though at the time it seemed just a matter of expediency. She was married to John Kirkpatrick, a prominent melodeon virtuoso in England, was pregnant with their first son, and found herself unable to maintain the breath control needed to play the oboe.[ citation needed ]
She performed on both instruments with the Albion Country Band on their debut album Battle of the Field (1976), and also recorded and performed as one half of a duet with Kirkpatrick. Harris has also performed with Richard and Linda Thompson, and has been a composer for the BBC on various broadcast plays, as well as for live theatre. She is also a singer and has written music for choral groups.[ citation needed ]
More recently, in 2008 she was leader of the "Wild Angels Community Choir" in Welshpool, Powys, Wales. [3]
Following the World Dulcimer Congress held in Malvern, Worcestershire in 2015, Harris formed the English Dulcimer Duo with Lisa Warburton. The duo has toured extensively, performing a repertoire of mainly English tunes, but also including a number of jaunty 18th-century melodies and Welsh tunes. [4]
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