# Tim Edey

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{{Short description|English musician and composer}}
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300px|thumb|right|Edey performing at the Costa del Folk Festival
'''Tim Edey''' is an English [multi-instrumentalist](/source/multi-instrumentalist) and composer who grew up in [Broadstairs](/source/Broadstairs), [Kent](/source/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](/source/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](/source/Daily_Record_(Scotland)) | 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](/source/BBC_Radio_2_Folk_Awards) and, with [Brendan Power](/source/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](/source/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](/source/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](/source/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](/source/The_Independent) | date=10 August 2012 | accessdate=11 June 2016 | author=Cumming, Tim}}{{cbignore}}</ref> As well as singing, he plays guitars, [melodeon](/source/Diatonic_button_accordion), piano and [tin whistle](/source/tin_whistle). ''Wriggle and Writhe'', his collaboration  with New Zealand harmonica player [Brendan Power](/source/Brendan_Power), was, according to [Colin Irwin](/source/Colin_Irwin_(journalist)), who reviewed it for the [BBC](/source/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](/source/BBC) | work=Music | date=2011 | accessdate=11 June 2016 | author=Irwin, Colin | author-link=Colin Irwin (journalist) }}</ref>

Edey toured with [The Chieftains](/source/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](/source/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](/source/L%C3%BAnasa_(band)).

==Discography==
===Albums===
* 2006 ''Irish Music From The Dingle Peninsula And Beyond''
* 2010 ''Disgrace Notes''  (with [Séamus Begley](/source/S%C3%A9amus_Begley)) 
* 2010 ''The Collective''		
* 2011 ''Wriggle and Writhe'' (with [Brendan Power](/source/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](/source/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]
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Category:Living people
Category:English folk guitarists
Category:English male guitarists
Category:English multi-instrumentalists
Category:Lúnasa (band) members
Category:People from Broadstairs
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