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Rachel Newton

Voice, Harp and Fiddle

About Me

Two albums in the pipeline, one duo ’Rachel and Lillias’ Fellside Recordings due out in June and ’The Shee’ currently being recorded. See page for more details. Hope you like my music! x
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My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 3/9/2006
Band Members: 'Rachel and Lillias'Rachel Newton (Voice and Harp) and Lillias Kinsman-Blake (Flute)..................................................... ............................................................ ............'THE SHEE'Olivia Ross (Voice and Fiddle), Amy Thatcher (Accordion), Shona Mooney (Fiddle), Rachel Newton (Voice and Harp), Laura Salter (Mandolin), Lillias Kinsman-Blake (Flute)..................................................... ............................................................ .......'VICARS OF BLYTH'Jonny Kearny (Vocals, Guitar) , Lucy Farrell (Vocals, fiddle, guitar), Rachel Newton (Vocals, harp, fiddle)
Influences: Well everything's an influence in some way or another but some of my favourite musicians have to be... Gillian Welch, Jeff Buckley, John Martyn, Joanna Newsom, Joan MacKenzie, Jerry Douglas, Billie Holiday, James Brown, Buddy Holly, Martyn Bennett, Liz Carroll, Minnie Riperton, Martin Hayes, Miles Davis, Sarah Vaughn could go on forever!!
Type of Label: None

My Blog

Film screening and Celtic Connections

HelloJust to say the film The Inheritance will be screened tomorrow (Sunday 13th Jan) at The Filmhouse, Edinburgh at 4pm. The film won the prestigious Raindance Award at the British Independant Film A...
Posted by Rachel Newton on Sat, 12 Jan 2008 06:50:00 PST

Films, recording and name changing

Hello!Just back from London where I went to the Raindance Film Festival to see new Scottish film, The Inheritance. My friend and fellow harpy Fiona Rutherford has written the beautiful music for this ...
Posted by Rachel Newton on Wed, 10 Oct 2007 12:28:00 PST

happenings....

Lots of things going on at the moment.....Just finished rehearsals for a play I will be involved with later in the summer. I'm taking over the role from my good friend Hannah Read and it involves sing...
Posted by Rachel Newton on Sat, 28 Jul 2007 02:04:00 PST

RUM!!!!

Well......last weekend I set sail to a small island called Rum. Unfortunatley it was the last festival on Rum for the near future so I can't recommend it for next year but it was AMAZING!!! Was there ...
Posted by Rachel Newton on Fri, 18 May 2007 11:44:00 PST

Success!

So the Sirens tour has come to an end and all in all it was a success!! After fretting about snow and road closures the weather in the Highlands was brilliant sunshine nearly the whole time! We had a ...
Posted by Rachel Newton on Fri, 06 Apr 2007 04:52:00 PST

Sirens in the Highlands!!

Hello Myspacers Hope all's well. Just to say how excited I am about the forthcoming first ever SIRENS TOUR!! And what better place than the Scottish Highlands? So please come along and support us if y...
Posted by Rachel Newton on Sat, 10 Mar 2007 06:48:00 PST

The Three at the Back

A few people have been asking me about this track so I thought I'd fill y'all in on the details. It's actually part of a CD we made some years ago at the City of Edinburgh Music School. The school is ...
Posted by Rachel Newton on Wed, 13 Dec 2006 01:16:00 PST

Newsflash!

Hello! THis is my first blog as I never really know what to say on these things but thought I'd let y'all know that Sirens have finally got a track up! To hear it just go to my top friends and please ...
Posted by Rachel Newton on Thu, 17 Aug 2006 02:28:00 PST