Sharron Kraus is an English singer, songwriter and musician with strong ties to the US. Kraus was born in New York but grew up in Leicester, England. She has lived in Philadelphia and collaborated with American musicians, including Meg Baird,

Helena Espvall Helena Espvall is a Swedish-American musician noted for her participation in the post-millennial psychedelic folk and free improv scenes. Her primary instruments are cello, guitar and voice."Helena Espvall interviewed and introduced by Buck Cur ...

, Christian Kiefer, Tara Burke ( Fursaxa), and Gillian Chadwick ( Ex Reverie) . Kraus has been compared to 1970s English folk singers such as Shirley Collins and Anne Briggs and heralded as one of the strongest voices in English contemporary folk. She has recorded a collection of traditional folk songs, ''Leaves From Off the Tree'', with Meg Baird and

of Philadelphia psych folk band Espers, but the majority of her work is self-authored, influenced by English and Appalachian folk song, but with its own distinctive voice. Musically Kraus' work is described as 'spine-tingling' 'spooky' and 'the sound of England and its enchanted gardens'.Jan Arne-Sohns
“The Fox's Wedding Review”
''Foxy Digitalis'' Kraus has toured Europe and the US with United Bible Studies, Meg Baird,

James Blackshaw James Blackshaw (born 1981) is an English, Hastings-based folk fingerstyle guitarist and pianist. Blackshaw primarily plays an acoustic 12 string guitar and has been compared to Bert Jansch, Robbie Basho, John Fahey, Jack Rose, and Leo Kottke. ...

, Fursaxa, Thinguma*jigSaw and

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Discography

*2002 – ''Beautiful Twisted'' CD ( Camera Obscura) *2003 – ''Yuletide'' CD (Elsie and Jack); a collaboration with The Iditarod *2004 – ''Songs of Love and Loss'' CD (Camera Obscura) *2006 – ''The Black Dove'' CD (Tompkins Square); a collaboration with

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*2006 – ''Leaves From Off the Tree'' CD/LP (Bo'Weavil); a collaboration with Meg Baird and

*2007 – ''Right Wantonly A-Mumming'' CD (Bo'Weavil); with

Jon Boden Jon Boden (born 17 March 1977) is a singer, composer and musician, best known as lead singer and main arranger of Bellowhead. His first instrument is the fiddle and he is a proponent of "English traditional fiddle style" and also of "fiddle si ...

John Spiers John Spiers (born 1975) is an English diatonic button accordion, melodeon, concertina and bandoneon player. He is widely recognised as one of the leading English melodeon players of his generation. Career file:Purbeck_Valley_Folk_Festival_2 ...

, Ian Giles,

Fay Hield Fay Hield is a traditional English folk singer and a Senior Lecturer in Ethnomusicology at the University of Sheffield. Career '' Looking Glass'', released September 2010, was Hield's debut solo album. The material consists mainly of traditio ...

, Ian Woods,

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and

Giles Lewin Giles Lewin is a British violinist and bagpiper. Currently a member of The Carnival Band, he was also a founding member of the folk band, Bellowhead. Biography He was born in Essex in 1960 or slightly earlier. At age nine, he sang the female ...

*2008 – ''The Fox's Wedding'' CD (

Durtro Durtro was a British independent record label established by the British poet, singer, songwriter, and visual artist David Tibet in 1988, to publish his own work and that of fellow friends and musicians. It was replaced by one of Tibet's earli ...

) *2008 – ''Rusalnaia'' CD (Camera Obscura); a collaboration with Gillian Chadwick *2008 – ''Travellers Two'' CD (Important); Tau Emerald, a collaboration with Tara Burke *2010 – ''The Woody Nightshade'' CD/LP (Strange Attractors Audio House) *2013 - ''Pilgrim Chants and Pastoral Trails'' CD (

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) *2015 - ''Friends and Enemies; Lovers and Strangers'' LP (

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) *2016 - ''If You Put Out Your Hand'' Booklet/CD; with Helen Tookey ( Wounded Wolf Press) *2016 - ''Time Takes Away'' CD; Rusalnaia (

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* Allmusic Guide {{DEFAULTSORT:Kraus, Sharron Year of birth missing (living people) Living people English folk singers Psychedelic folk musicians English women singer-songwriters Appalachian music