Raised by a folk music-loving family in South Yorkshire, Kate Rusby (born on
December 4, 1973) spent much of her childhood at folk festivals, watching her
parents' ceilidh dance band and singing traditional songs around the house.
These were the songs she performed when she first started playing in public in a
duo with Kathryn Roberts, having been at drama school and turned down a part in
the TV soap opera Emmerdale. Both she and Kathryn Roberts were recruited to join
the young band Equation, but Rusby quit to go solo when the group was signed to
a major label and she disagreed w...