Judy Dunlop - Essential Judy Dunlop

Facts 2012 collection. A member of the Albion Band in the early 1990s, Judy Dunlop has remained one of traditional and contemporary British folk music's top vocalists. Her debut solo album, Sway with Me, paired her with Ashley Hutching and included guests Martin Carthy and Dave Swarbrick. Subsequent recordings, an album of lullabies, My Arms Are a Cradle and I Want Something, with guitarist Jon Scaife of American acoustic group, Gypsy Reel. Dunlop collaborated with composer, performer Steve Marsh in the late-1980s as well as numerous guest performers with Ashley Hutchings & Mick Ryan projects and not forgetting the Lark Rise Band. Performing from the age of 13, Dunlop displayed talent in a variety of mediums. She attracted national attraction as a dancer in the BBC program, Feet First, in the mid-1980s, and the voice of BBC Channel 5 special, X-mas Files, in 1999.