Scarlet Kite play a variety of unusual and original blues-folk numbers with poetry, harmonies & strong melodies. We are working towards our first EP.
We are Ruby Delby, Nina Keys, Vida Jay and Karen D. Scarlet Kite were made in London in the summer of 2014, when Ruby badgered Karen and Nina into playing a gig with her at the Kneller Hall of Music. After several changes and repositioning, the trio began rehearsing a wider selection of songs and are now getting out and about playing to some very lovely audiences at festivals, folk clubs and pubs.
Ruby is a singer-songwriter who sings and plays rhythm guitar and woodwind. Nina is a highly skilled pianist with beautiful harmonic abilities, and also plays a lovely finger-picked guitar. Karen brings ethereal top notes and melodies with woodwind and is the Queen of Bass, while Vida Jay plays soaring violin, killer keys, percussion and pretty mandolin. Scarlet Kite are a London based acoustic band big on folk and blues. We create strong harmonies interwoven with an uplifting, melodic wall of sound. We produce punchy guitar rhythms, fine finger-picking, solid piano bases, a soaring fiddle and an ethereal flute, packing masses of spell-binding atmosphere. Scarlet Kite are available as one, two, three or four piece set, we perform our own material and unique versions of well known anthems.
