Fay Hield
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{{Infobox musical artist
| name = Fay Hield
| image = Fay Hield.jpg
| caption = Fay Hield at the Warwick Folk Festival, July 2011
| instrument = Vocals
| genre = Folk
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|df=yes|1978|2|4}}
| occupation = Folk singer; university Professor; ethnomusicologist
| years_active = 1999–present
| associated_acts = Fay Hield Trio
| website ={{url|fayhield.com/}}
}}
Fay Hield (born 4 February 1978) is a traditional English folk singer{{cite web |url=http://www.topicrecords.co.uk/?cat=10 |title=Fay Hield |website=Topic Records |date= |access-date=2021-11-26}} and a Professor of Music at the University of Sheffield.{{cite web |url=https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/music/people/academic-staff/fay-hield |title=Prof Fay Hield |website=University of Sheffield |department=Department of Music |date= |access-date=2021-11-26}}
Career
Looking Glass, released September 2010, was Hield's debut solo album.{{cite news |author-link=Robin Denselow |first=Robin |last=Denselow |url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2010/sep/02/fay-hield-looking-glass-review |title=Fay Hield: Looking Glass |department=Review |newspaper=The Guardian |date= 2010-09-02|access-date=2021-11-26 |location=London}} The material consists mainly of traditional songs and ballads.{{Cite web |url=http://www.fayhield.com/biography/ |title=Biog |website=Fay Hield |access-date=2021-11-26 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121023103518/http://www.fayhield.com/biography/ |archive-date=2012-10-23 |url-status=dead }} She started gigging her new album as the Fay Hield Trio, made up of Rob Harbron (English Acoustic Collective) and Sam Sweeney (Bellowhead). Hield was nominated for the Horizon Award at the 2010 BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards.
Hield was part of The Witches of Elswick, with whom she recorded two CDs in their six years together.{{cite web |title=Fay Hield: Looking Glass |url=https://www.topicrecords.co.uk/2010/09/fay-hield-looking-glass-tscd573/ |website=Topic Records |access-date=26 November 2021}}
As researcher, Hield completed her PhD thesis "English Folk Singing and the Construction of Community" in 2010 at the University of Sheffield,{{cite thesis |degree=PhD |first=Fay |last=Hield |title=English Folk Singing and the Construction of Community |publisher=University of Sheffield |year=2010 |url=https://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/1544/4/Hield%2C_Fay.pdf |id={{EThOS|uk.bl.ethos.531184}} |access-date=2021-11-26}} {{open access}} then becoming a lecturer in ethnomusicology and music management in 2012 and Professor of Music in 2023. In 2021 she was awarded a Future Leaders Fellowship by UK Research and Innovation, to carry out a four-year research programme titled "Defining ethnomusicological Action Research through the regeneration of English folk clubs."{{cite web |title=University of Sheffield researchers recognised as leaders of innovation |url=https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/news/university-sheffield-researchers-recognised-leaders-innovation |website=University of Sheffield |access-date=26 November 2021 |date=2021-09-09}}
Along with her ex-partner Jon Boden, Hield helped to run two folk clubs – Royal Traditions (Dungworth) and Bright Phoebus (Sheffield). She also established a community music organisation in 2010, and ran the first Soundpost Singing Weekend in 2011.
Orfeo, released May 2012, was Hield's second album, with a new line-up, Fay Hield & the Hurricane Party (Jon Boden, Rob Harbron, Sam Sweeney & Andy Cutting).
In 2013 Hield in conjunction with the English Folk Dance and Song Society (EFDSS) put together The Full English band to promote the launch of the society's on-line publication of their archive search engine. The band issued an eponymous album and toured providing a showcase for both the band and the archive.
The Full English
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Discography
- Looking Glass (2010)
- Orfeo (May 2012)
- The Full English (2013)
- Old Adam (February 2016)
- Wrackline (September 2020)
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- The Haworth Set (1999)
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- Out of Bed (2003)
- Hell's Belles (2005)
Personal life
Hield and her ex-partner, folk singer Jon Boden, have a daughter, born 2006, and a son, born 2009.{{cite news| url=http://www.sheffieldtelegraph.co.uk/news/songs-that-raise-the-roof-1-2769708 |title=Songs that raise the roof |date=18 November 2010 | first=Peter | last=Kay |newspaper=Sheffield Telegraph}}{{dead-link|date=November 2021}}
References
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External links
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- [http://www.fayhield.com/ Official Site]
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- [http://www.sheffield.ac.uk/music/staff/academic/fayhield Staff page] at the Department of Music, University of Sheffield
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Category:Alumni of Newcastle University
Category:Alumni of the University of Sheffield
Category:Musicians from Sheffield
Category:Place of birth missing (living people)
Category:21st-century British singers
Category:The Full English members
Category:UK Research and Innovation Future Leaders Fellowship