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About the event
Tunes and songs from Northumberland and Ireland.
Kathryn Tickell (Northumberland) and Mick McAuley (Ireland) are tradition-bearers who learnt their music from family and friends within their communities, who gave freely of their time, talent, and musical knowledge to ensure the passing down of centuries of tunes, songs and stories. Both went on to become global genre-defiers: Mick moving to the US to work with Irish American all-stars Solas, and Kathryn collaborating with diverse artists such as Jacob Collier, Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, Penguin Café Orchestra, and The Chieftains.
Two parallel lives and two deep traditions finally came together in 2026 when Kathryn and Mick performed in the worldwide tour of Sting’s autobiographical musical ‘The Last Ship’.
In this tour Kathryn and Mick share some of their earliest musical influences alongside newly composed tunes and songs.
Kathryn Tickell: Northumbrian pipes, fiddle
Mick McAuley: melodeon, guitar, whistles, voice
