Maddy Prior When Winter Comes Again

English singer

Maddy Prior MBE
Peter Knight and Maddy Prior at Fairport's Cropredy Convention 2006.
Background data
Birth proper name	Madelaine Edith Prior
Built-in	(1947-08-14) fourteen August 1947 (age 74)
Origin	Blackpool, Lancashire, England
Genres	British folk rock, folk
Occupation(s)	Singer, Dancer
Instruments	Vocals, Percussion
Years active	1967–nowadays
Labels	Park
Associated acts	Steeleye Span Maddy Prior and Tim Hart Brass Monkey Featherbrained Sisters The Carnival Band June Tabor Rose Kemp (Prior'southward girl)
Website	www.maddyprior.co.united kingdom

Musical creative person

Madelaine Edith Prior MBE (born 14 Baronial 1947) is an English folk vocaliser, best known as the atomic number 82 vocalist of Steeleye Span.^[1] She was built-in in Blackpool and moved to St Albans in her teens. Her father, Allan Prior, was co-creator of the law drama Z-Cars. She was married to Steeleye bass guitarist Rick Kemp and their girl, Rose Kemp, is also a vocalist. Their son, Alex Kemp, is, like his father, a guitarist and has deputised for his father playing bass guitar for Steeleye Span. She was part of the singing duo 'Mac & Maddy', with Mac MacLeod. She and then performed with Tim Hart and recorded two albums with him, before they helped to constitute the group Steeleye Span, in 1969. She left Steeleye Span in 1997, just returned in 2002, and has toured with them since. With June Tabor she was the singing duo Lightheaded Sisters. She toured with the Carnival Band, in 2007, and with Giles Lewin and Hannah James, in 2012 and 2013. She has released singles and albums equally a solo creative person, with these bands and in several collaborations. She runs an Arts Middle called Stones Befouled, in Bewcastle, in Cumbria, which offers residential courses.

Early life [edit]

Born in Blackpool, Prior moved in her teens to St Albans, where she befriended the immature Donovan Leitch and Mac MacLeod in The Cock pub. She afterwards formed a duo with MacLeod called 'Mac & Maddy'. She became a roadie for visiting American musicians, including Reverend Gary Davis. They gave her useful advice virtually singing English folk songs instead of American songs. Her father, Allan Prior, was co-creator of the police drama Z-Cars, and wrote Stookie, a 6-part series for goggle box, about a male child with his arm in a sling. Maddy sang the title song, which was released as a unmarried in 1985. It reappeared on the Steeleye Span album A Rare Collection 1972 – 1996.

Singing career [edit]

Afterward a brief stint with Mac MacLeod in 'Mac & Maddy' (another human activity formed at The Cock pub), by 1966 she began performing with Tim Hart, another St Albans resident, and together they recorded two albums before becoming founding members of Steeleye Bridge in 1969.^[2] They were the backbone of the group until the early 1980s when ill-health forced Hart into semi-retirement. Prior plays the tambourine, spoons and ukulele, and e'er gives a sprightly performance of her individual dances. In 1974 Ralph McTell wrote "Maddy Dances" in her honour, included on his album Easy.

Prior married bassist Rick Kemp, though they have since divorced. The vocaliser Rose Kemp is their girl.

Prior has recorded session work, albums of her own songs and eclectic styles from medieval (with The Carnival Band), through British folk rock — Steeleye Span and Maddy Prior appeared on boob tube with a regular BBC 4 programme Electrical Folk ^[three] — prog-stone and traditional songs, including session work on Mike Oldfield's Incantations. She left Steeleye Bridge in 1997 but returned in 2002. The 1999 album The Journeying was recorded in 1995, when Maddy was nevertheless in the band, simply not released until four years later. She was also one half of the duo Airheaded Sisters, which helped to boost June Tabor'south career.

Since 2003 Prior has run and hosted an Arts Eye chosen Stones Barn in Cumbria. Working with young man singers and performers like Abbie Lathe and girl Rose Kemp, Prior has offered residential courses focusing on singing, meditation, cookery and performance. Other events, hosted past other teachers, include classical Indian dances, painting and drumming. Prior campaigns on behalf of the clemency Cancer Research Britain.

In 1983, Maddy became the namesake for Madelyne Pryor of the X-Men, created past Chris Claremont and Paul Smith. The band was directly referenced 5 years after Pryor'due south first appearance in the comics in Avengers Annual #ten with Pryor's child cocky singing a line from "Coming to America", ane of Steeleye Span'south biggest hits.

Recent tours and albums [edit]

Maddy Prior took to the route with The Carnival Band in May 2007 for their "Music for Tavern and Chapel" bout. They celebrated the 300th anniversary of one of the key influences on their work, Charles Wesley. She fabricated a invitee appearance with The Levellers at the Solfest Festival in Cumbria in Baronial 2007. On contempo albums Troy Donockley has been a co-producer.

In December 2007 the album Ringing The Changes was issued. It is a collection of songs written by the band. In 2008 Maddy Prior appeared at the BBC'due south "Electric Proms".^[four] Steeleye Span toured the Eastern US, Australia and the Britain beginning in 2009.

With Giles Lewin and Hannah James, Prior completed 2 successful UK tours, in the spring and fall of 2012, with a tertiary, in autumn 2013.

In November and December 2013 Prior toured with Steeleye Span, on the Wintersmith Tour, post-obit the release in October of their album Wintersmith, a collaborative projection based on the novel of the aforementioned name by Terry Pratchett.

A short tour with The Carnival Ring in November and December, featuring carols and seasonal music, has become a regular fixture for Prior in recent years.^{[ when? ]}

Awards [edit]

In 2001 Maddy Prior was awarded the MBE for services to folk music.^[5] In 2022 she received an Honorary Fellowship from the Academy of Cumbria.^[6]

Discography [edit]

With Steeleye Bridge [edit]

Prior was on all the Steeleye Span albums from Hark! The Hamlet Await (1970) to Time (1996). She and then returned for Present – The Very All-time of Steeleye Span (2002) and subsequent albums.

Solo albums [edit]

Woman in the Wings (1978) — with Jethro Tull
Changing Winds (1978)
Hooked on Winning (1982)
Going for Glory (1983)
Happy Families (equally 'Maddy Prior and Rick Kemp') (1990)
Year (1993)
Memento (best of) (1995)
Flesh and Claret (1997)
Ravenchild (1999)
Ballads and Candles (2000)
Arthur the King (2001)
Bib and Tuck (2002) — as 'Maddy Prior and the Girls' with Abbie Lathe and Rose Kemp
Lionhearts (2003)
Under the Covers (2005) — as 'Maddy + Girls' with Abbie Lathe and Claudia Gibson
The Quest (2007) (CD + DVD)
Seven for Old England (2008)

Compilation [edit]

Collections 1995 – 2005 (2005)

Tim Hart and Maddy Prior [edit]

Folk Songs of Olde England vol ane (1968)
Folk Songs of Olde England vol 2 (1968)
Summer Solstice (1971)

Maddy Prior and June Tabor [edit]

Dizzy Sisters (1976)
No More To The Trip the light fantastic (1988)

Maddy Prior, John Kirkpatrick and Sydney Carter [edit]

Lovely in the Dances (1981)

Maddy Prior and The Carnival Band [edit]

A Tapestry of Carols (1987)
Sing Lustily and with Practiced Courage (1990)
Carols and Capers (1991)
Hang Up Sorrow and Care (1995)
Carols at Christmas (1996)
Gold Frankincense and Myrrh (2001)
An Evening of Carols and Capers (2005)
Paradise Found (2007)
Ringing the Changes (2007)
Vaughan Williams Carols Songs & Hymns (2010)
A Christmas Caper: The Best of Maddy Prior & the Carnival Band (2012)

Maddy Prior and Martin Carthy [edit]

Trounce the Retreat (1994) Maddy Prior and Martin Carthy perform two songs, "Goodbye, Farewell", and "The Swell Valerio" on this Richard Thompson tribute album.

Maddy Prior, Giles Lewin and Hannah James [edit]

three for Joy (2012)
Shortwinger (2017)

Maddy Prior singles [edit]

"Rollercoaster" / "I Told You Then" (1978)
"Baggy Pants" / "Woman in the Wings" (1978)
"Just the Two of Us" / "Acappella Stella" (1979)
"Wake up England" / "Paradise" (1980)
"The King" / "Ringing Down the Years" (1980) (with Dave Cousins/Strawbs)
"To Face" / "One-half Listening" (1982)
"Deep in the Darkest Night" / "Western Movies" (1983)
"Stookie" / "Incidental Music From "Stookie"" (1985)
"Happy Families" / "Who's Sorry Now?" (1990)
"I Saw Three Ships" / "Quem Pastores" / "Monsieur Charpentier's Christmas Swing" (1991) (with the Carnival Ring)
"I Saw Iii Ships (Dance Md'south Christmas Re-Mix)" / "The Boar's Head" / "Poor Little Jesus" (1992)
"All Around My Chapeau" (1996) (with Status Quo), No 47
"Forgiveness" (2000) (with Jennifer Cut All-Stars)
"Gaudete" / "Greenwood Side" / "Gaudete (extended mix)" (2001) (with Keltic Fusion; Maddy's voice is sampled)
"Stuff" (2007) (with the Carnival Band and Terry Jones)
"Secret Garden" (2007) Excalibur Ii - The Celtic Ring, produced and equanimous by Alan Simon

DVDs [edit]

Ballads and Candles (2004)
An Evening of Carols and Capers (2005)
Looking For a Grail Legend (2007) (documentary)

As a session or guest singer [edit]

She appeared on these albums:

Shirley Collins: No Roses (1971)
Jack the Lad: It'south Jack the Lad (1974)
Ralph McTell: Streets... (1975), No 13
Jethro Tull: Besides Old to Rock 'northward' Roll: Too Young to Die! (1976), No 25
Wizz Jones: Magical Flight (1977)
Mandalaband: The Eye of Wendor: Prophecies (1978) on the rails Like the Air current
Mike Oldfield: Incantations (1978), No 14
Mike Oldfield: Exposed (1979) No 16 - live anthology, re-released in 2005 on DVD-Video
Tim Hart and Friends: My Very Favourite Nursery Rhymes (1981)
Tim Hart and Friends: The Drunken Crewman and other Kids Favourites (1983)
Swan Arcade: Diving for Pearls (1986)
Frankie Armstrong: Till The Grass O'Ergrew The Corn (1996)
Status Quo: "Don't End" (1996), No 2
Rev Hammer'due south Freeborn John: The Story of John Lilburne-The Leader of the Levellers (1997)
Ayuo: Nova Carmina (1986) (Maddy Prior sings two songs from the Carmina Burana)
Jennifer Cutting: Sea: Songs for the Night Body of water Journey (2005)
Rev Hammer – Freeborn John Alive (2007)

Goggle box [edit]

BBC Wildlife on One: Shadow of the Hare 12 April 1993

References [edit]

^ The Times, 28 January 2000; interview with Maddy Prior
^ Nickson, Chris. "Biography: Maddy Prior". AllMusic . Retrieved 26 May 2010.
^ "Steeleye Span - Electric Folk (BBC Four) 1974". YouTube. 16 March 2013. Archived from the original on 21 Dec 2021. Retrieved 19 May 2020.
^ "Electrical Proms 2008 - Artists - Maddy Prior". BBC. Retrieved nineteen May 2020.
^ Martin Chilton (7 Jan 2011). "Maddy Prior: Vaughan Williams, Carols, Songs & Hymns: CD Review". The Daily Telegraph. image two of two. Archived from the original on 20 January 2011. Retrieved 24 April 2012.
^ "University of Cumbria Honorary Fellows 2014". Cumbria.ac.uk. 8 July 2014. Retrieved 9 July 2016.

External links [edit]

Official website
Stones Barn
Park Records, Prior's Tape Label
The Carnival Band

wraynotheires.blogspot.com

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maddy_Prior