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- PROVIDENCE New Album Katy Carr is an award winning British singer-songwriter with Polish roots.
- Katy Carr is a British singer-songwriter and musician known for her songs about Polish history.
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📢 Honouring the 85th Anniversary of the Deportation of Poles to Siberia Today, on February 10th, we solemnly commemorate the 85th anniversary of the [...]
🎤 Katy Carr Concert: Commemorating the 85th Anniversary of Poles Transported to Siberia 🎼 Date: 8th February 2025 Venue: The Polish Church of Divine [...]
🎶❤️ Katy Carr’s February 2025 Concert Newsletter: Celebrating Polish Heritage and Community 🇵🇱✨Welcome to the Katy Carr Global Family “Family isn’t [...]
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Interview | Katy Carr – woman on a mission
Katy Carr is on a mission. The daughter of a British father and Polish mother, her fourth album, Paszport, is a tribute to lost and forgotten Polish war stories that is both moving and a darn good listen. Carr’s first two records, Screwing Lies and Passion Play were more straightforward folk – tales of love, passion and seduction that flirted with quirky arrangements and synths. It was with 2009 release, Coquette, that she began to explore stories from the Second World War and the themes of patriotism and nationhood that, with Paszport, would become a raison d’etre.
Known for performing in beautiful, 1940’s vintage outfits, Carr’s fascination with WW2 began early in life – rather uniquely for a folk singer, Carr is a qualified pilot who trained with the Air Training Corp, and who firmly believes that the spitfire ‘saved Britain from Nazism’. But her love of 30’s and 40’s music was really sparked by her English grandmother.
‘My grandfather died and my grandmother was grieving,’ she explains. ‘She wouldn’t talk t
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Sometimes art and music provide a much more immediate and powerful connection with the past than history books, or the biographies that I write. This month I would like to dedicate my blog to another wonderful ‘History Girl’: the truly original and talented Anglo-Polish singer-songwriter Katy Carr.
| Singer-songwriter Katy Carr |
I first met Katy when she came to the National Army Museum to hear me lecture about Krystyna Skarbek, aka Christine Granville, the Polish-born countess who was the first woman to work for Britain as a special agent during the Second World War, and the subject of my biography 'The Spy Who Loved'. Sporting a retro-chic 1940s look, topped by felt hat and red lipstick, Katy stood out among the audience, like an elegant ghost straying in from the post-war London streets. (The only other time I have been so struck by an individual member of an audience, was when WinStan Churchill, aka Stan Streather, professional Churchill doppelgänger, once turned up in a polka-dot bow-tie to hear me talk at the Imperial War Museum’s Churchil
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