Multi-award winning musician, composer, academic and arts leader

Kathryn is a musician and academic working in the areas of folk performance and composition. Kathryn has recently returned to Australia after working on a Marie Sklodowska-Curie fellowship in Newcastle upon Tyne. Her research and performance work focuses on communal and ubiquitous musical traditions connected to local ecologies and the cycles of nature.

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Under the Greenwood Tree EP by The Bard Band available now

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Upcoming performances and speaking events

Kangaroo Valley Folk Festival with The Bard Band, October 2026

Jane Austern Mystery Ball with The Bard Band, October 2026, Canberra.

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lllawarra Folk Festival with The Bard Band and Trad Youth, January 2027.

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Featured Video - Hold Thy Peace

in Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night. Performed by Shalani Thomas, Kathryn Roberts Parker and George Teasdell

  • The Tabor: Original Morris Instrument?

    Podcast episode with Early Music @ Newcastle

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  • Ubiquitous Music in Early Modern England

    Newcastle University UK, January 2023

    Kathryn organised a symposium inviting some of the most well-known scholars of vernacular music to speak and performed a morris dance with her new folk group, Talon.

Featured Interview

October 2021

With ABC’s The Music Show

British Folk from a Yorkshire Valley and Shakespeare’s Globe

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Testimonials

“Her music is delicious, aural enjoyment.”

— Judith Greenaway, Sydney Arts Guide.

“Kathryn’s leadership is outstanding.”

— Dr Peter Binks, former CEO of the John Monash Foundation

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Kathryn works as a musician, composer and dramaturg on a project basis, depending on availability.

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