Duos come and duos go… and some nurture and fine tune their art and watch it grow into something totally original, captivating and award-winning. Bonded by an unseen alchemy, Kathryn Roberts & Sean Lakeman have entwined their professional and personal relationship into an enviable class act of imaginative songwriting and musicianship.
The Dartmoor-based husband and wife have twice won the coveted ‘Best Duo’ title at the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards, as well as ‘Best Duo’ at the Folking.com Awards and Spiral Earth Awards. They consistently deliver assured, distinctive performances whether live or recorded. In three decades of performing, they have never been trapped in a groove – always bold and innovative, mixing traditional song arrangements with their self-penned material which reels from the bitter to the sweet, the wry to the sad, the political to the passive.
Kathryn Roberts & Sean Lakeman sit at the high table of contemporary song-writing and musicianship. – FATEA Magazine
Contemporary protest meets trad vignettes – a fine feather for the cap of the Lakeman musical dynasty. – Daily Mirror
