Katie Grace Harris comes to Kingsbridge Cookworthy Museum

Emerging musical talent Katie Grace Harris is heading to Kingsbridge Cookworthy Museum to stage a concert in their walled garden with cellist Andy Nice. 

Katie Grace Harris, from Oxfordshire, is heading to the Kingsbridge Cookworthy Museum on Saturday, 22 June, to stage a concert in their walled garden with cellist Andy Nice.   

This is part of a collaborative project between Katie and the museum to record and film Katie’s song Haul Away Hallsands, which is written about Elizabeth Prettejohn and the local Hallsands tragedy.

Katie said: “We visited Kingsbridge Cookworthy Museum when I was a child and I was fascinated by the pictures and stories from Hallsands.

"Now as an adult and a professional musician I have returned to these tales from social history as inspiration for my songs. Hallsands was one of the first stories that I wrote about and it features on my debut album.

"I am delighted to be working with the museum to film the finished song, Haul Away Hallsands in the Victorian kitchen and to play a concert for everyone in the walled garden."

Katie’s is a folk/acoustic singer-songwriter who weaves her tales using piano, piano accordion, mountain dulcimer, stomp board and shruti-box. She is joined on cello by Andy Nice who has played with everyone from Sade to Tindersticks and even Cradle of Filth. The eagle-eyed might also spot him as the cellist in the 1995 BBC version of Pride and Prejudice.

Katie’s music has been described as: "Boot thumping, heart filling, contemporary British folk songs, based on real stories from social history."

You can listen to the song Haul Away Hallsands on YouTube here: 

You can find out more about Katie on her website: www.katiegraceharris.com