Music, Song, Dance, and Steam!

 

Holly Kirby

Isle of Wight entertainer Holly Kirby has been a singing and making music from an early age. Her main instruments currently are the guitar, ukulele, piano and tin-whistle, although she plays others (including the Appalachian Dulcimer) and hopes to learn more. She’s a natural and confident performer - she used that talent to great effect in a popular British TV show, appearing as Enya in front of an audience of millions, and earning Holly Kirbycongratulations from the great lady herself. Her work has also been commented on positively by other famous stars, including Alan Rickman (a particular favourite of hers!), and attracted a tweet from arch-twitterer (and film star) Ashton Kutcher!

Holly's YouTube channel, alpet07, is frequently one of the top music sites in the U.K. Her videos have been viewed well over three quarters of a million times in total, her channelmain page more than 100,000 times, and she has over 4,000 subscribers who are notified of each new video she produces.

Holly enjoys all sorts of music and is very open to new ideas and new sounds. In the last year much of her work has been an eclectic mix of Celtic, folk and pop music, to which she applies her own distinctive, clearly sung and often emotional sound. Holly is also a keen poet and artist, and many of her poems and songs have an almost interchangeable lyrical quality.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Run in conjunction with the Isle of Wight Steam Railway. This event is organised by FolkStation Limited