Kathryn Tickell: 'This is so much more to me than just a band'

Kathryn Tickell has played the pipes with shepherds, jazz trios – even Sting. But her favourite collaboration is with the Penguin Cafe Orchestra'I never really wanted to learn the pipes," says Kathryn Tickell over coffee one grey late-summer afternoon. "I'd heard them, but had no great interest." But fate took a hand a little over 30 years ago, when her father brought home a set he planned to pass on to someone else, and she picked them up. "I was nine or 10. I had a go, and that was it.""I ha...

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