Kirsty Bromley

Sweet Nightingale is the sparkling new Debut EP of Kirsty Bromley & recently formed band; Philippe Barnes, Simon Dumpleton & Oli Matthews. It has beautiful unaccompanied tracks appropriately titled ‘Sweet Nightingale’ & ‘The Trees they do Grow High’.

The album starts with ‘Crow on the Cradle’ with jazzy accompaniments featuring Kirsty on the trumpet, Oli on Soprano Sax & a driving guitar line. Also on the album are ‘Roll you sweet rain’ composed by Kate Fagan merged with a tune written by Philippe & Tim. Finished with ‘Singing Through The Hard Times’ subtle instrumentation & a strong vocal chorus. All in all a great EP showing Kirsty’s pure sounding voice & the versatile sound of her band.

Pete Coe is a ‘One Man Folk Industry’ an amazing folk singer & extremely talented multi-instrumentalist. His album Back Bone (released 2010) consists of traditional ballads, original material, comic material, Jazzier numbers & numerous guest musicians including Kirsty on Trumpet & backing vocals. To her, Pete Coe is an amazing influence & to guest on his album was a huge highlight in her life. Also featured on the album; Chris Coe, Johnny Adams, Jon Loomes, Alice Jones, Michael Beeke, Annie Dearman, Hugh Bradley & Chris Partington, Dan Eccles

At One with the Bells is a recently released album by morris team Pecsaetan. Kirsty has been dancing with Pecsaetan since April 2009. The album is a compilation of all the artists that perform within the team as well as recordings of popular morris tunes & dances that Pecsaetan perform. It was put together to celebrate the teams 10th Birthday this year (2011) & to help raise money to support their trip to Canada in 2012. Featured artists on the CD include; Richard Arrowsmith, Jess Arrowsmith, Kirsty Bromley, The Melrose Quartet, Simon Dumpleton, Carmel Wood, Sarah Matthews, Trinculo, Aisling Holmes, Catrin Ashton, Paul McMahon, Jo Mahor, , members of Pecsaetan & members from the Sheffield Chorale.