Nadia Cattouse

Nadia Evadne Cattouse was born in Belize City on 2 November 1924.{{cite book |last1=Ramdin |first1=Ron |title=Reimaging Britain: 500 Years of Black and Asian History |date=September 1999 |publisher=Pluto Press |pages=189 |isbn=978-0-7453-1600-0 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eDRnAAAAMAAJ&q=Nadia+Cattouse+1924 |access-date=29 October 2024}} Her father, Albert Cattouse, was a civil servant who became Deputy Prime Minister of British Honduras, and her mother, Kathleen Fairweather Cattouse, was an educator.{{cite news|url=https://www.breakingbelizenews.com/2023/11/13/nadia-cattouse-british-belizean-icon-celebrates-99-years-of-cultural-impact-and-resilience/|title=Nadia Cattouse: British-Belizean icon celebrates 99 years of cultural impact and resilience|work=Breaking Belize News|first=Horace|last=Palacio|date=13 November 2023|access-date=2 November 2024}}

In 1943, during the Second World War, Nadia Cattouse came to Britain as a volunteer. She was trained in Edinburgh, Scotland, as a signals operator. She also became a part-time physical training instructor with the Auxiliary Territorial Service (ATS).[http://www.caribbeanaircrew-ww2.com/?cat=47 "Caribbean aircrew in the RAF during WW2"]. She subsequently attended teacher training college in Glasgow, and after qualifying she returned to British Honduras, where she was headmistress of a Mission school and lectured on infant education at Teachers' Training College and summer courses.West Indians in Great Britain 1973/74. Hoddesdon, Hertfordshire, UK: West Indian Digest, April 1973. She returned to Britain in 1951 and studied Social Sciences at the London School of Economics,{{cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2024/11/04/nadia-cattouse-auxiliary-territorial-services-belize-folk/|title=Nadia Cattouse, wartime ATS volunteer who faced racism and became a 'giant of the folk-song revival'|newspaper=The Telegraph|date=4 November 2024}} acting and singing to pay her way through college.

Cattouse began her television career in 1954.{{cite web |title=Nadia Cattouse |url=https://windrush70.co.uk/nadia-cattouse |website=Windrush 70 |date=12 June 2023 |access-date=29 October 2024}}{{cite news |last1=Humes |first1=Aaron |title=Nadia Cattouse dies at 99 |url=https://www.breakingbelizenews.com/2024/10/29/breaking-nadia-cattouse-dies-at-99/ |access-date=29 October 2024 |work=Breaking Belize News |date=29 October 2024}}Bourne, Stephen, [https://books.google.com/books?id=YYaryaqLfd4C&q=%22albert+cattouse%22+nadia+cattouse&pg=PA114 Black in the British Frame: The Black Experience in British Film and Television] (Continuum, 2001), pp. 112–18. She appeared in two prize-winning television productions, Freedom Road: Songs of Negro Protest (1964)[https://web.archive.org/web/20120911081609/http://explore.bfi.org.uk/4ce2b71b8049e "Freedom Road: Songs of Negro Protest (1964)"], BFI. and There I Go, and appeared on stage as Felicity in Jean Genet′s The Blacks. Her notable recordings as a folk singer included "Long Time Boy"{{YouTube|TfEuOmiLqbk|"Nadia Cattouse – Long Time Boy"}} and "Red and Green Christmas".

As a singer in the 1960s she performed at Les Cousins folk and blues club in Greek Street, London, and appeared in television programmes including the BBC's Sing Along and Hootenanny. On the folk scene, she was a contemporary of Julie Felix and Fairport Convention, and was described by Melody Maker as "one of the giants of the folk-song revival in Britain".[http://numerogroup.com/dig_sub.php?st=c&ar=Cattouse%2C%20Nadia "Cattouse, Nadia"], Digital Dig. With Robin Hall and Jimmie Macgregor she made Songs of Grief & Glory in 1967.{{YouTube|estjvdswduE|"Nadia Cattouse: Kelston Round Hill (1967)" from Songs of Grief & Glory}}. Her album Earth Mother (1970) was partly recorded at the 1969 Edinburgh Festival. Among other compilations, Cattouse featured on Cult Cargo: Belize City Boil Up (2005), singing "Long Time Boy",[http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/2078-cult-cargo-belize-city-boil-up/ Review by Joe Tangari of Cult Cargo: Belize City Boil Up], Pitchfork, 26 October 2005. and on the 1972 album Club Folk 2 (Peg Records PS3), singing "B. C. People"{{YouTube|uE-Pnpg90Z0|"Nadia Cattouse – B. C. People"}} and "All Around My Grandmother's Floor".{{YouTube|0r5k91DTbmc|Nadia Cattouse: "All Around my Grandmother's Floor" from Earth Mother}}. Nadia recorded several songs under the pen name "Eva Dayne". She also used this name on songs she adapted and arranged.{{cite web |title=Nadia Cattouse|last=Dewjee |first=Audrey |url=https://windrush70.co.uk/nadia-cattouse |website=Windrush 70 |date=April 2020 |access-date=3 March 2025}}

Cattouse was known for her acting roles in many British television programmes including Angels, Within These Walls, Play for Today, Crown Court, Dixon of Dock Green and Johnny Jarvis.

Cattouse married David Lindup (1928–1992), an arranger-composer with John Dankworth's orchestra, in 1958. The couple had two children and their son Mike Lindup is the keyboard player of the jazz-funk new wave band Level 42. The couple divorced in the mid-'60s and in 1969 Cattouse married Bryan Webb.

Cattouse died in London on 29 October 2024 at the age of 99.{{cite news |last1=Bourne |first1=Stephen |title=Nadia Cattouse obituary |url=https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2024/nov/03/nadia-cattouse-obituary |access-date=3 November 2024 |newspaper=The Guardian |date=3 November 2024}} Tribute was paid to her on the BBC Radio 4 programme Last Word, for which her son Mike Lindup was interviewed.{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5gA8OUlwu8|title=Radio 4 Last Word tribute to Nadia Cattouse (feat. Mike Lindup interview) - 15/11/2024|via=YouTube|date=November 2024}}

• September 2009, Meritorious Service Award from the Government of Belize, "in recognition of her advancement of social, cultural, and political awareness among Belizeans and other Caribbean people in the UK".Kamcdonald, [http://uoginternationalstory.wordpress.com/2014/04/21/belize-government-meritorious-service-award-goes-to/ "Belize government Meritorious Service Award goes to…"], The University of Glasgow's International Story blog, 21 April 2014.

• Nadia Cattouse (Reality, 1966)

Side A:

• A1: Nobody's Business. Adapted and arranged by Eva Dayne
• A2: Turn Around by – Malvina Reynolds
• A3: Skipping And Jumping by – David Campbell
• A4: Please written-By – Eva Dayne
• A5: People With Bad Mind Trad (traditional) music arranged by Eva Dayne
• A6: Budbank Wedding by – Gerald Rhaburn
• A7: Sorrow by – Eva Dayne
• A8: Fayo, traditional music

Side B:

• B1: Judas And Mary by – Sydney Carter
• B2: Brown Girl In The Ring adapted and arranged by – Eva Dayne
• B3: The Way Of The World by – David Campbell*
• B4: Beautiful Barbados by – Emile Strakr
• B5: That's What I'd Like To Do by – Eva Dayne
• B6: Long Time Boy by – Eva Dayne
• B7: Don't Think Twice by – Bob Dylan
• B8: Go From My Window arranged By – David Campbell, traditional music {{Cite web|url=https://www.discogs.com/release/3225882-Nadia-Cattouse-Nadia-Cattouse|title=Nadia Cattouse|website=Discogs }}

• Earth Mother (RCA International, 1970){{Cite web|url=https://mainlynorfolk.info/folk/records/nadiacattouse.html|title=Nadia Cattouse|website=mainlynorfolk.info}}

• "The Boy Without a Heart" / "Long Time, Boy" (1961)
• "Run Joe" / "Bahaman Lullaby" (1961)
• "Port Mahon" / "A Little More Oil" (1965)
• "Beautiful Barbados" / "Turn Around" (Reality / RE 503)
• "It's Hard to See" / "Desert Sand" (LIV/SP/93)

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• Edinburgh Folk Festival Vol. 1 (1963){{Cite web|url=https://mainlynorfolk.info/folk/records/edinburghfolkfestival.html|title=Edinburgh Folk Festival|website=mainlynorfolk.info}}
• Edinburgh Folk Festival Vol. 2 (1964)
• Folk Festival (1964){{Cite web|url=https://mainlynorfolk.info/folk/records/folkfestival_zlp2033.html|title=Folk Festival|website=mainlynorfolk.info}}
• Freedom Road: Songs of Negro Protest (Fontana, 1964)
• Songs from ABC Television's "Hallelujah" (Fontana, 1966){{Cite web|url=https://mainlynorfolk.info/martin.carthy/records/songsfromhallelujah.html|title=Songs From ABC Television's 'Hallelujah'|website=mainlynorfolk.info}}
• Songs Of Grief And Glory" (Fontana, 1967)
• 49 Greek Street (RCA / RCA SF8118, 1970; RCA / JASKCD193, 2007)
• Club Folk Volume 1 (Peg, 1972){{cite web | url=https://mainlynorfolk.info/folk/records/pegsampler.html | title=B&C / Pegasus Sampler|website=mainlynorfolk.info }}
• Club Folk Volume 2 (Peg, 1972)
• Cult Cargo: Belize City Boil Up (Numero, 2005)

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