Kitty Macfarlane

Kitty Macfarlane is a songwriter and guitarist from Somerset, whose music is rich with  visual imagery and written with an eco-eye. Her trademark lies in remarkably mature  songwriting, a marked empathy with the environment and a strong sense of place.  Carried by a clear voice ‘controlled yet wild’ (Folk Radio), her lyrics touch on intervention  and rewilding, climate change and migration, woman’s age-old relationship with textiles  and the land, and the changing face of the natural world. From the starling  murmurations on the Somerset Levels to the lowly eel’s epic transatlantic migration, the  coasts and estuaries of the South West and the small part we ourselves play in a much  bigger picture, her songs are bound by the underlying theme of mankind’s relationship  with the wild. Cerebral and topical, honest and immediate, these are not throwaway  lyrics or everyday melodies but thought-provoking and evocative compositions with  wonderfully crafted soundscapes.  

Her debut album Namer Of Clouds was one of The Guardian’s Best Folk Albums of  2018, and has seen airplay across BBC Radio 2, 3, 4 and 6 Music. Last year she was  invited to guest-present two episodes of BBC Radio 4’s Tweet of the Day and Kitty performed live in session on BBC Radio 2 at the beginning of 2019.  

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