DETTA KENZIE WITH SPECIAL GUEST CHRIS CLEVERLEY

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Detta Kenzie returns to Folk at the Farrier for an intimate evening of cinematic songwriting and soul-stirring vocals. As she launches her debut EP, Detta introduces a striking new duo with award-winning guitarist Chris Cleverley, offering audiences a first taste of their spellbinding sound. Her songs are rich with emotional depth and vivid storytelling, exploring themes of womanhood, grief, and transformation. While rooted in traditional Celtic folk influences, her music is guided by a bold, contemporary spirit. Together with Chris' intricate fingerstyle guitar and ambient textures, the duo craft a genre-blurring performance that is both atmospheric and unforgettable. Expect lyrical storytelling, powerful musicianship, and a sound that stays with you long after the evening end.

Detta Kenzie is an indie-folk singer and songwriter whose music, while often touched by traditional Celtic folk influences, is guided by a thoroughly modern and independent spirit. A former English teacher, her love of language fuels vivid storytelling exploring landscape, womanhood, grief, and rebellion. Blessed with a voice of striking beauty and clarity, Detta performs with uncompromising authenticity, moving beyond outdated expectations of how a female folk singer should sound, delivering performances full of verve, power, and undeniable truth.

Described as “a singer of siren songs with a voice likely to lure the unsuspecting onto the rocks” and praised for her “staggering control and emotional depth,” Detta’s music finds its home in the hearts of those who hear it, staying with listeners long after the last note and earning praise from critics for its honesty and soul. She has opened for celebrated artists including Martin Simpson and Phil Beer, and collaborated with phenomenal musicians such as Tobias ben Jacob. Detta has also formalised a creative partnership with guitarist Chris Cleverley, acclaimed for his intricate, genre-blurring fingerstyle playing that fuses folk traditions with a contemporary edge.

"Detta Kenzie is a singer of siren songs with a voice likely to lure the unsuspecting onto the rocks."
FATEA Magazine
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"Detta has the ability to fully inhabit the song, to wring from it every last emotion. Stunning."
Downend Folk & Roots
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"A very special singer."
Gavin McNamara, Bristol24/7
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"Her music has a depth and honesty that is both exciting and unique."
St George’s Bristol

https://www.dettakenzie.com/