Our next LCM featured artist is the wonderful young Somerset based folk singer-songwriter Kitty Macfarlane. Kitty will shortly be releasing her highly anticipated debut album 'Namer Of Clouds' via Navigator Records on the 21st September. We have been hearing very good reports and are really looking forward to hearing it in full and sharing a LCM review with you. Her lyrics combine honest snapshots of everyday humanity with the bigger questions that have connected minds and voices for centuries, driven by her own fingerpicked guitar.Our LCM #SongOfTheDay is the lovely, timely and thoughtful 'Man, Friendship' taken from the new album. The song has been one of our personal favourites at Kitty's live shows.

'Man, Friendship' is a song of impermanence. “The Somerset Levels are prone to widespread flooding, and I wrote this song after the destructive deluge of early 2014. It’s about the ruthless power of nature, and the changes we see in our climate that are beginning to affect the creatures and landscapes that we love. Above all, it’s about what we as humans can cling to when all else is washed away.” Kitty comments

The excellent video is by our friend Rob Bridge at Redwood Photography.

Kitty is one of our LCM 'Ones To Watch' in 2018.

Kitty will be launching the new album with her band at The Water Rats in London on the 13th November. She is also on a UK tour (all dates on Kitty's website) and you can additionally catch her at a number of summer festivals. 

As well as the release of her debut EP 'Tide & Time' featuring Sam Kelly (co-producer), Jamie Francis, Lukas Drinkwater, Maya McCourt and Ciaran Algar, and gaining her first national airplay on the BBC Radio 2 folk show with Mark Radcliffe, and Tom Robinson's show on BBC 6Music - 2016 has seen Kitty complete an extensive national support tour with award-winning duo Kathryn Roberts & Sean Lakeman. Other highlights range from support sets for Seth Lakeman, Alasdair Roberts, Rachel Sermanni, Blair Dunlop, and Feast of Fiddles, to appearing as a theme-tune on Radio 4, being a featured artist for a BBC Introducing documentary, and making the semi-final of the BBC Young Folk Award in 2015. Kitty has also recently been awarded a creative bursary from the English Folk Dance and Song Society (EFDSS) for a songwriting project of her own devising.

http://www.kittymacfarlane.com/

Pre-order the new album here