Tim Edey

{{Short description|English musician and composer}}

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Tim Edey is an English multi-instrumentalist and composer who grew up in Broadstairs, Kent{{cite magazine | url=https://www.livingtradition.co.uk/articles/timedey | title=Tim Edey | magazine=The Living Tradition | date=2012 | accessdate=11 June 2016 | last=Heywood |first=Fiona |issue=92}} and is now based in Perthshire, Scotland.{{cite news | url=http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/incoming/musician-tim-edey-invites-audience-4643461#PzCyfkxvF7dMTMVZ.97 | title=Musician Tim Edey invites audience to join in live recording of new album | work=Daily Record | date=17 November 2014 | accessdate=11 June 2016 | author=Bonn, Melanie}} In 2012 he was Musician of the Year at the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards and, with Brendan Power, Best Duo.{{cite press release | url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/latestnews/2012/folk-award-winners.html | title=Radio 2 Folk Awards 2012 winners announced | publisher=BBC | date=18 March 2014 | accessdate=11 June 2016}} He was awarded "Musician of the Year" in the 2020 MG Alba Scots Trad Music Awards.{{cite web |title=MG ALBA Scots Trad Music Awards announces 2020 winners |url=https://projects.handsupfortrad.scot/scotstradmusicawards/mg-alba-scots-trad-music-awards-announces-2020-winners/ |website=Hands Up for Trad |access-date=13 December 2020}}

Edey has been described as an "instrumental genius".{{cite news | url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/features/folk-festival-of-the-week-broadstairs-folk-week-various-venues-broadstairs-8026824.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220507/https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/features/folk-festival-of-the-week-broadstairs-folk-week-various-venues-broadstairs-8026824.html |archive-date=7 May 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live | title=Folk festival of the week: Broadstairs Folk Week, various venues, Broadstairs | work=The Independent | date=10 August 2012 | accessdate=11 June 2016 | author=Cumming, Tim}}{{cbignore}} As well as singing, he plays guitars, melodeon, piano and tin whistle. Wriggle and Writhe, his collaboration with New Zealand harmonica player Brendan Power, was, according to Colin Irwin, who reviewed it for the BBC, "one of the more colourful folk albums of 2011, from a pair of true virtuosos".{{cite web | url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/music/reviews/n3fd/ | title=Tim Edey & Brendan Power Wriggle and Writhe Review | publisher=BBC | work=Music | date=2011 | accessdate=11 June 2016 | author=Irwin, Colin | author-link=Colin Irwin (journalist) }}

Edey toured with The Chieftains on their 2014 tour of the United States,{{cite news | url=http://irishpost.co.uk/tim-edey-on-his-celtic-folk-roots-and-touring-with-the-chieftains/ | title=Tim Edey on his Celtic folk roots and touring with The Chieftains | work=Irish Post | date=5 April 2004 | accessdate=11 June 2016 | author=Giltrap, Joe}} their 2017 tour of Japan and was also a member of Lúnasa.