Chloe Matharu

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Chloe is a nineteen year old folk singer from Edinburgh with cultural roots in Scotland, Wales and India. She was lucky enough to have grown up surrounded by the wealth of traditional music in her home country and also her mother’s county of Pembrokeshire. As a child, Chloe was always fascinated by the endless number of folk stories she was told and her interest in performing traditional music started with singing unaccompanied folk ballads. She was hooked by the combination of story and music. From a young age Chloe has found pleasure in singing: performing in choirs, playing in bands during the Edinburgh Fringe and while at school won a place to perform at the Radio 2 Cambridge Folk Festival with its Youth Band. Chloe has recently recorded her debut album, Next Market Day which features the instrumentalists Lauren MacColl, on fiddle; Ewan MacPherson on guitar; and Ailig Hunter on the double bass and sitar. Next Market Day will be released October, 2010 and will be available from her website. At the moment Chloe is studying Molecular Biology at the University of St Andrews, and in between studies travels to perform at concerts. ....

Location: Edinburgh and Pembrokeshire, UK

Members: Chloe Matharu with instrumentalists Ewan MacPherson on Guitar, Lauren MacColl on Fiddle and Ailig Hunter on Double Bass.

Influences: Anne Briggs, Fairport Convention, Pentangle, Sheelagh MacDonald, Steeleye Span, Vashti Bunyan...

Sounds Like:

-"... mature and gentle tone ... delivers a wonderful variety of songs with confidence and sincerity ... a voice with the purity of a folk classic." (Bella Hardy) -“There's a plaintiveness and restraint to Chloe Matharu's singing… a refreshingly unaffected, intimate and pastoral quality…" (Karine Polwart)