Kate Rusby to scour Cork Folk Festival for old tunes that need rescuing

Kate Rusby has collaborated with everyone from Ronan Keating to Paul Weller, and is looking forward to hearing new music on her visit to Cork Folk Festival, writes Ed Power.

Kate Rusby is so bubbly she deserves to have a brand of champagne named in her honour. That, at least, is how the Yorkshire folk singer comes across in conversation. On stage and on record she cuts a very different figure — her steely, expressive voice guiding the listener through storm-tossed laments and gripping confessionals.