TWO celebrated folk musicians will join forces for a show at Otley Courthouse next weekend.

Luke Daniels and Nancy Kerr will perform solo sets before teaming up to play a selection of each other's songs at the venue on Saturday, March 10.

English fiddler and singer Nancy is well-known from the Melrose Quartet, the Sweet Visitor band and as half of a duo with James Fagan.

Her use of radical folk mythology as a backdrop for contemporary tales about love, conflict, migration and more has seen her compared to William Blake.

She is the winner, to date, of six Folk Awards from BBC Radio 2 and was nominated for the Best Original Song 2011 for Queen of Waters.

Luke, meanwhile, is also a BBC award winning folk musician and former Riverdance band member who has performed with Ian Anderson of Jethro Tull, Cara Dillon and De Dannan.

Hailed as a 'master melodeon player', he is also the Folk Musician in Residence of the Scottish National Museum of Rural Life and a tutor on the traditional music course at Royal Conservatoire Scotland, in Glasgow.

He has performed with the London Philharmonic Orchestra too, as a soloist on the soundtracks for hit movies Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit.

The pair's Otley Courthouse show starts at 8pm and tickets cost £12.50. They can be booked by visiting www.otleycourthouse.org.uk, calling (01943) 467466 or popping into the Courthouse, on Courthouse Street.