Fay is a Professor of Music at the University of Sheffield, and leads research around increasing and diversifying participation in folk singing. Bringing new arrangements to old songs, Fay continues in her exploration of the incredible repertoire that is the English tradition, pushing at the boundaries of our engagement with music.  A force to be reckoned with and having a distinctive voice, as I write she is on Radio 4's Front Row talking about the significance of the hare in folk culture.

As an award-winning folk singer, Fay Hield has toured and recorded with the biggest names in folk music, both as the founder of supergroup The Full English, as well as her own band The Hurricane Party. Her latest album Wrackline, looks at traditional stories involving the ‘otherworld’ of fairies, ghosts and the animal kingdom, and explores our emotional responses to the space between their realm and our own. Working through imaginary space to make things real. Accompaniment is by a stellar cast of some of the finest folk musicians working today; Rob Harbron, Sam Sweeney, Ben Nicholls and Ewan McPherson.