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Kate Rusby - Live from Leeds | 
 enlarge | Actor: Kate Rusby
Studio: Compass Records
Category: DVD
List Price: $24.97
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Rating:  10 reviews
Sales Rank: 38428
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dvd-video, Live, Ntsc
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Number Of Items: 1
Running Time: 87
Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: 974381
UPC: 766397438191
EAN: 0766397438191
ASIN: B00027JYAI
Theatrical Release Date: June 29, 2004
Release Date: June 29, 2004
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South Yorkshire folk singer-songwriter Kate Rusby celebrates a decade-plus as a recording artist and performer with this live concert, mostly adapted from her popular studio albums and replete with her typically evocative, emotional immediacy singing ancient ballads, sea shanties, and lullabies. Highlights include the infectious waltz, "Polly," the sprightly, hopeful "I Courted a Sailor," and Rusby's crystalline vocal on "The White Cockade." Backed by her outstanding, all-acoustic band, Rusby's celebrated talent for making an old sound feel new again drives the delicate plaint "Who Will Sing Me Lullabies," the pop-like "The Cobbler's Daughter," and the sad "Withered and Died," which sounds very much like the passage of heartbreaking events into memory. Newcomers to Rusby may wonder if those songs in her repertoire having to do with dragons, knights, and fair maidens (such as this set's "Sir Eglamore") are terribly precious, but they actually prove as personally expressive as anything else she does. --Tom Keogh
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Unadorned Beauty November 1, 2008
Rusby's voice is a thing of beauty, pitch-perfect and full of character and sentiment while devoid of melisma, ululating or other unnecessary adornment.
She appears on stage in a simple white tanktop, with a flower in her hair but no makeup. Her simple natural beauty is on full display. Her gorgeous brown eyes light the stage.
The acoustic Kate Rusby Band supports her singing with aplomb and skill, neither outshining her nor failing to meet her standard. All are amazing musicians, but it takes their instrumental solo song to confirm this.
The concert was filmed from several angles, and deliciously recorded, without the technology ever intruding into the experience. The music reigns supreme, with no distractions or ancillary focii to detract from the reason the audience, the band and the cameras all converged. The City Varieties Music Hall is charmingly intimate, allowing Kate's humorous intersong banter to seem personal and familial, even at the distance of a DVD remove.
In short this DVD is everything a Rusby fan could ask for, and nothing more.
Great music, enjoyable to watch October 6, 2008
I have been a fan of Kate Rusby for the better part of her performing career. She performs the trad-folk music extremely well.
John McCusker was also a strong performer here as well, and his musical talent shines through this as well. I particularly enjoyed the tune medley.
I would highly recommend this to the seasoned Rusby an. However for the others, I would suggest starting with 10 and Hourglass first.
What a treat! May 6, 2008
I was introduced to this most talented artist through the show Jam and Jerusalem. I heard a tune, found the name to be Underneath the Stars by a singer-songwriter named Kate Rusby. I immediately purchased the CD. I listened to it and loved it. Time passed, the CD left unplayed and I pulled it out and have been listening to it over and over in awe of the way Kate can bring so much life, passion, emotion and innocence to a song.
I went online, saw the DVD, read the reviews and figured, "Why not." Well, I have already watched it about 7 times. As good as Kate is on CD, well, she is amazing live. Her energy is most wonderful and the little anecdotes she tells between the songs just warms my heart. She, as well as her band, is so humble, gracious and talented.
She as gathered together a most talented group of musicians that complement her in every way possible. As I watch them perform I see them go into that place, some call it the zone. It is obvious they love what they are doing and it shows. I can feel their passion and as Kate sings, most of the time with eyes closed, I feel as though she is permitting us, her audience into a very private and sacred place. At other times I feel like she's invited us all to sing in and have a grand time.
For anyone who is a fan of Kate, I highly recommend this DVD. You will not be disappointed, but rather, most wonderfully pleased. For those who haven't heard of Kate, go ahead. You won't be sorry.
dead gorgeous July 19, 2007
Enchanting singer, sparkling instrumentals, beautiful video - what more could you want? Warning: it's so rich, I find I must take it in measured doses - 2 or 3 tracks at a time.
Unqualified Recommendation September 29, 2005
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
God knows I've had my complaints about some of her CDs,
but they don't apply here, because if you are like me,
among the ~90% of her fans who will never see her live,
this DVD is your only extant chance to see, as well as hear.
To put it another way, the very first time I tried to
watch this, I had to pace myself out across about 4 nights,
and when the DVD was over, my first thought was "She ought
to make a concert DVD for every studio CD she makes.
Isn't that wild?
If you wish to know what opened my eyes most, it was 2
odd-angled camera shots of Johnny (may I call him that?).
Watch the DVD, see what I saw (twice), and you too will
learn a bit about where the staggering emotional depth
of her best work comes from. Life is too fragile for words,
and faith is too strong for words. Poor, poor words!
Better to sing, those who may.
I bought "Leeds" with "Underneath the Stars", then bought
"The Girl Who Couldn't Fly" a few days later. That last
disc is still in its wrapper, and it will stay there until
I am sure I have my received all I am able to from "Leeds"
and "Stars".
Kate Rusby is like a great secret that you wish you could
tell to the whole world, except the telling is nothing,
and the songs can be dodged and eluded by those who do not
seek; yet those who do seek (I am speaking of meaning and
expression), find, within her songs. This is marvellous to me.
All the more so because she neither wants nor has a monopoly
on the delight of her audience. So, enjoy, but branch out, too.
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