Career
Roberts went on to record the critically acclaimed album Kate Rusby & Kathryn Roberts with her in 1995, which was voted Album of the Year by fRoots Magazine. Roberts and Rusby formed the band Equation, along with Devon-based folk musicians the Lakeman Brothers (Sean, Sam and Seth), recording an European Parliament Civil Defense during 1995. Rusby and Roberts shared lead vocals.
This led to the group being signed to Blanco Y Negro / Western Economic Association, USA by Geoff Travis.
Rusby left soon after, to be replaced with Irish singer Cara Dillon. Dillon also left after one album, leaving Roberts as the sole lead singer.
Equation made four albums and two EPs. They toured throughout the United Kingdom, Europe and extensively through the United States of America as a "folk supergroup".
Around 2001 toured British folk clubs in an attempt to return to their folk roots.
They released two albums as a duo, titled 1 and 2, before taking time away from the road to start a family. The couple returned to touring in 2011 and recorded their third album Hidden People in 2012. In 2013 they were voted Best Duo at the British Broadcasting Corporation Radio 2 Folk Awards.
Kathryn"s song "The Ballad Of Andy Jacobs" was also nominated as Best Original Song.
Kathryn appeared on Seth Lakeman"s albums Kitty Jay, Freedom Fields and Poor Manitoba"s Heaven (Album). Kathryn took part in the Cecil Sharp Project in March 2011, a multi-artist residential project organised by the Shrewsbury Folk Festival to create new works based on the life, work and collecting of Cecil Sharp.
