Rachael Dadd is an English folk and lo-fi musician based in

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. She is currently signed to French independent label

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. Dadd has played at a variety of UK music festivals including

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, End of the Road,

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and

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. She has also toured with

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, Francois and the Atlas Mountains, This Is The Kit and

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Music career

Dadd has played alongside a wide range of notable UK bands and artists including

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, and Curly Hair. In February 2009 and again in July 2009, she toured the UK with

. In recent years, she has played at

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every year. She regularly collaborates with This Is the Kit frontwoman Kate Stables, with whom she performed in the band Whalebone Polly. Additionally she performs alongside Wig Smith as The Hand and with

. She also performs with her husband, Japanese musician ad performance artist

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. Multi-instrumentalist

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often performs as a member of Dadd's band. The two announced an eight date tour of Japan for April 2018. Dadd has received ongoing support from

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and has also been played on Gideon Coe's show on

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. Her 2014 album ''We Resonate'' was released through French independent record label

. Dadd provided backing vocals on

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's 2016 release, ''Strangers Bring Me No Light''.

Discography

* ''Summer/Autumn Recordings'' (2004) * ''Songs from the Crypt'' (2005) * ''The World Outside is in a Cupboard'' (2007) * ''After The Ant Fight'' (2008) * ''Moth In The Motor'' (piano mini-album10") (2010) * ''Elephee EP'' (2010) * ''Bite the Mountain'' (2011) * ''We Resonate'' (2014) * ''Connected to the Rock/Archipelago'' (2018) * ''FLUX'' (2019) * ''Live from The Planetarium in Ehime, Japan'' (2020) * ''Live from the Ramsgate Music Hall'' (2020) * ''Kaleidoscope'' (2022)

As artist

Dadd graduated from art school with first class honours. She is still a practising and exhibiting artist, making her own limited edition record sleeves and collaborating with her sister, Betsy Dadd, who is an animator and an

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graduate.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Dadd, Rachael Living people English folk musicians Musicians from Bristol Year of birth missing (living people) Place of birth missing (living people) 21st-century English musicians 21st-century English women musicians