Product Description(2-CD set) The Best of Kathryn Tickell is a two-disc set containing the highlights of Northumbrian piper, fiddle player and composer Kathryn Tickell. It seems a particularly fitting release since the globally acclaimed Northumbrian musician was awarded the prestigious Queen's Medal for Music this year. Kathryn Tickell is a composer, performer and successful recording artist whose work is deeply rooted to the landscape and people of Northumbria. She also works collaboratively across many genres, making her work contemporary and exciting, and putting her firmly at the forefront of the current folk music revival. In 2008 she became the first folk musician in history to be commissioned to write a piece for the BBC Proms.