Nancy Kerr

Who is Nancy Kerr?

Nancy Kerr is an English folk musician, specialising in the fiddle and singing. She is the daughter of London-born singer-songwriter Sandra Kerr and Northumbrian piper Ron Elliott.

Kerr came to prominence in the early 1990s via a musical partnership with fellow fiddle player Eliza Carthy. The duo produced two albums - Eliza Carthy & Nancy Kerr and Shape of Scrape - before ceasing to work together. A retrospective collection of their work - On Reflection - was released in 2002.

Kerr and her mother released an album together - Neat and Complete - in 1996.

Since 1995 Kerr has mostly worked in a duo with Australian bouzouki player and singer James Fagan, whom she married in 2007. The duo won the Horizon Award at the inaugural BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards in 2000, and Best Duo at the same awards in both 2003 and 2011 Between 1997 and 2008 they released six albums on the Fellside label - "Starry Gazy Pie", "Scalene", "Steely Water", "Between The Dark and Light", "Strands of Gold" and "Station House". 2010 saw the production their first completely original collection of songs - "Twice Reflected Sun", released 9 August 2010 on Navigator Records. First track of the album, Queen of Waters, was nominated for the Best Original Song category at the BBC Folk Awards in 2011.