November dates around the UK are now listed on the Gigs page. I'll be playing with Fursaxa and also Alex Tucker on some of the dates, Alec K. Redfearn on the rest.

Songs for the Twins: a cd of children's songs - nursery rhymes and folk songs - that I recorded for the birth of Lucy Elizabeth and Jay Rowan Fletcher in January is available as a cdr.

13/09/2005

There's a new interview at Nucleus: an Argentinian website for symphonic/progressive rock and avant-progressive/new music.

28/08/2005

Just got back from an amazing 2 weeks travel round Bulgaria and my head's spinning, full of Bulgarian songs and tunes.

I have a track on the brand new compilation put out by Honeymoon Music. Other artists on the comp. include Fursaxa, Phosphene, Niagara Falls.

Various projects in the pipeline: The Black Dove, a collaboration with Christian Kiefer, will be released on Tompkins Square early next year. I'm about to start mixing Leaves From Off The Tree: a collection of traditional songs recorded with Meg Baird and Helena Espvall of Espers and that should be ready for release next summer..

I'll be playing some UK shows in November with Fursaxa and will post dates on the Gigs page when we get that organised.

· Sharron's session for VPRO Radio in Amsterdam can be heard online here.

· Songs of Love and Loss made various best of 2004 lists including the Philadelphia Citipaper's Best Local CDs of 2004 and Arthur Magazine's "80 Goddamn Good Things of 2004".

· Sharron is interviewed in the current issue of Ptolemaic Terrascope.

· Sharron is one of the singers featured in Songlines on BBC Radio Scotland this week. The programme investigates the history and variety of the traditional border ballad The Dowie Dens of Yarrow.

· There's an interview and a concert review in Belgian Goth magazine, Dark Entries.

· I have had to pull out of most of the UK shows with Deerpark due to a nightmare cough and bad throat. My voice has been useless for the past week and so I came home to rest and hopefully will be able to sing in time for the Oxford show at the Zodiac. My apologies to anyone who was disappointed. I hate to cancel shows. Hopefully I'll get a chance to play some UK shows later in the year.

· The Belgian tour was amazing. Thanks to all the people who came out, gave us food, drink and a place to stay. There's a review of the 't Ey show in Storing and one of the Bunker show in KindaMuzik.

· Sharron is one of 19 artists, including Flying Saucer Attack, Lush and Christian Kiefer, to cover Wire's 'Outdoor Miner' on A Houseguest's Wish, released by Minneapolis label, Words on Music.

· Sharron guests on Irene Trudel's show on WFMU on Monday 27th September, 3 - 6 pm Eastern Time.
** POSTPONED TO MONDAY 4TH OCTOBER **

· Sharron was interviewed by Jenny Kelly for Neumu.

· Interview with Sharron on Just off the Radar, Sunday, 16th May,
4 pm, on WUGA: Athens, Georgia's NPR station.

· New contact email address:skraus@modomail.com

· New Yahoo! Groups mailing list. Sign up for news updates.

· The new album Songs of Love and Loss is now out on Camera Obscura Records.
MP3 clips added to Songs page.

· The March issue of The Wire features Sharron along with Espers, Fursaxa, Scorces in an article on Philadelphia's burgeoning underground folk scene.

· A summer of recording: I've been working on the new album at home and at Dungeon Studios out in the cotswolds. Recording should be finished by the end of september and then I'm off to Philadelphia for a while, to live with the wonderful Espers and Heather Leigh Murray (Charalambides). Mixing will happen late october with Jeffrey Alexander in Providence.

· Just got back from my California/Texas trip. Many fun gigs were played, plus a whole album of new material was written and recorded with Christian Kiefer. He's currently doing the mixing and hopefully we'll put it out later in the year. Next up, recording my new album for Camera Obscura..

· A new review of Beautiful Twisted just appeared at Matamore. It's in French.

· The March UK Iditarod/Sharron Kraus tour was shitloads of fun. Thanks to everyone who looked after us, played with us and came to see the shows. Check out Miriam's photo page.

· Sharron will be talking to Ian Anderson about the future of English folk music on March 19th on Radio 3 (9.30 pm) as part of a four and a half hour program called 'A Place Called England' along with Birdloom partner Muud, Billy Bragg, and others. The program starts at 7.30 pm and also features live performances by Waterson:Carthy, Spiers and Boden, and interviews with Shirley Collins and June Tabor.
Listen to the whole program online on the BBC Radio 3 website.

· Yuletide, a cd of wintery songs and soundscapes Sharron recorded with the Iditarod, is now out on elsie and jack records.

· Beautiful Twisted is listed in Rolling Stone Magazine's Critics' Top Albums of 2002.

· Sharron is featured in The Broken Face #15, out now.

· New pictures taken by Maude Swift.

· Sharron is working on an album of traditional English folk songs set to electronic music with Muud from Loop Guru.

· Sharron plays clarinet on The Iditarod's contribution to T5: a box set of 7" records released by Time-Lag Records to coincide with the Terrascope 5 festival. Other bands featured are Stone Breath, Charalambides, Bardo Pond and Sonic Youth.

· Sharron is featured in the latest issue of the Dutch magazine New Folk Sounds (issue 82).

· Extended profile of Beautiful Twisted at The Unbroken Circle.

· Pictures from the cd launch gig at Bartlemas Chapel.

· Interview by Renaud Rigart at Zoopa Loop.

For more information email skraus@modomail.com