{{Short description|English musician and composer}} {{Use British English|date=June 2016}} {{Use dmy dates|date=June 2016}} 300px|thumb|right|Edey performing at the Costa del Folk Festival '''Tim Edey''' is an English multi-instrumentalist and composer who grew up in Broadstairs, Kent<ref name="Heywood">{{cite magazine | url=https://www.livingtradition.co.uk/articles/timedey | title=Tim Edey | magazine=The Living Tradition | date=2012 | accessdate=11 June 2016 | last=Heywood |first=Fiona |issue=92}}</ref> and is now based in Perthshire, Scotland.<ref name="Bonn">{{cite news | url=http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/incoming/musician-tim-edey-invites-audience-4643461#PzCyfkxvF7dMTMVZ.97 | title=Musician Tim Edey invites audience to join in live recording of new album | work=Daily Record | date=17 November 2014 | accessdate=11 June 2016 | author=Bonn, Melanie}}</ref> In 2012 he was Musician of the Year at the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards and, with Brendan Power, Best Duo.<ref name="Folk awards">{{cite press release | url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/latestnews/2012/folk-award-winners.html | title=Radio 2 Folk Awards 2012 winners announced | publisher=BBC | date=18 March 2014 | accessdate=11 June 2016}}</ref> He was awarded "Musician of the Year" in the 2020 MG Alba Scots Trad Music Awards.<ref>{{cite web |title=MG ALBA Scots Trad Music Awards announces 2020 winners |url=https://projects.handsupfortrad.scot/scotstradmusicawards/mg-alba-scots-trad-music-awards-announces-2020-winners/ |website=Hands Up for Trad |access-date=13 December 2020}}</ref>
Edey has been described as an "instrumental genius".<ref name="Cumming">{{cite news | url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/features/folk-festival-of-the-week-broadstairs-folk-week-various-venues-broadstairs-8026824.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220507/https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/features/folk-festival-of-the-week-broadstairs-folk-week-various-venues-broadstairs-8026824.html |archive-date=7 May 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live | title=Folk festival of the week: Broadstairs Folk Week, various venues, Broadstairs | work=The Independent | date=10 August 2012 | accessdate=11 June 2016 | author=Cumming, Tim}}{{cbignore}}</ref> As well as singing, he plays guitars, melodeon, piano and tin whistle. ''Wriggle and Writhe'', his collaboration with New Zealand harmonica player Brendan Power, was, according to Colin Irwin, who reviewed it for the BBC, "one of the more colourful folk albums of 2011, from a pair of true virtuosos".<ref name="Irwin">{{cite web | url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/music/reviews/n3fd/ | title=Tim Edey & Brendan Power Wriggle and Writhe Review | publisher=BBC | work=Music | date=2011 | accessdate=11 June 2016 | author=Irwin, Colin | author-link=Colin Irwin (journalist) }}</ref>
Edey toured with The Chieftains on their 2014 tour of the United States,<ref name="Giltrap">{{cite news | url=http://irishpost.co.uk/tim-edey-on-his-celtic-folk-roots-and-touring-with-the-chieftains/ | title=Tim Edey on his Celtic folk roots and touring with The Chieftains | work=Irish Post | date=5 April 2004 | accessdate=11 June 2016 | author=Giltrap, Joe}}</ref> their 2017 tour of Japan and was also a member of Lúnasa.
==Discography== ===Albums=== * 2006 ''Irish Music From The Dingle Peninsula And Beyond'' * 2010 ''Disgrace Notes'' (with Séamus Begley) * 2010 ''The Collective'' * 2011 ''Wriggle and Writhe'' (with Brendan Power) * 2012 ''Sailing Over The 7th String'' * 2016 ''How Do You Know?'' * 2017 ''The Sleeping Tunes'' * 2018 ''The Sleeping Tunes, Vol. 2'' * 2018 ''Once'' (with J.P. Cormier} * 2019 ''Being Myself'' * 2020 ''The Sleeping Tunes, Vol. 3 : Lockdown Edition'' * 2023 ''A Celtic Christmas''
===Singles=== * 1999 "A Suite for Celts in Kent"
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== *[https://timedey.com/ Official website] {{Lúnasa (band)}} {{Authority control}}
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