Dr Kate Kennedy
@drkkennedy.bsky.social
Research Fellow at Wolfson College Oxford and Director of the Oxford Centre for Life-Writing. @ox.ac.uk
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The @suttonhoo.bsky.social @nationaltrust.org.uk lyre — an imaginative reconstruction from the fragments of the #AngloSaxon original discovered in the burial mound 🪕
The last time a lyre was heard here, it was before the #Vikings… and they probably didn’t play Oh When The Saints Come Marching In 😅🎶
The last time a lyre was heard here, it was before the #Vikings… and they probably didn’t play Oh When The Saints Come Marching In 😅🎶
November 17, 2025 at 10:17 AM
The @suttonhoo.bsky.social @nationaltrust.org.uk lyre — an imaginative reconstruction from the fragments of the #AngloSaxon original discovered in the burial mound 🪕
The last time a lyre was heard here, it was before the #Vikings… and they probably didn’t play Oh When The Saints Come Marching In 😅🎶
The last time a lyre was heard here, it was before the #Vikings… and they probably didn’t play Oh When The Saints Come Marching In 😅🎶
At Hatchlands Park @nationaltrust.org.uk with the OAE’s keyboard specialist Stephen Devine, revelling in a wealth of historic instruments 🎹✨ But I’m here to explore #Napoleon ’s piano — his wedding gift to his teenage bride, who sobbed in her carriage all the way from Vienna 🎼💔
#NationalTrust
#NationalTrust
November 17, 2025 at 10:05 AM
At Hatchlands Park @nationaltrust.org.uk with the OAE’s keyboard specialist Stephen Devine, revelling in a wealth of historic instruments 🎹✨ But I’m here to explore #Napoleon ’s piano — his wedding gift to his teenage bride, who sobbed in her carriage all the way from Vienna 🎼💔
#NationalTrust
#NationalTrust
If you haven’t yet tuned in… podcast available via website, Spotify, Apple Music! 🎧 with Sarah Dowd on @historyffs.bsky.social!
👉 Listen, follow, rate, review now: podfollow.com/historyffs
#HistoryFFS #MusicAndMemory #HistoryPodcast #WWII #CulturalHeritage #Cello @oxmusicfaculty.bsky.social
👉 Listen, follow, rate, review now: podfollow.com/historyffs
#HistoryFFS #MusicAndMemory #HistoryPodcast #WWII #CulturalHeritage #Cello @oxmusicfaculty.bsky.social
October 30, 2025 at 9:05 AM
If you haven’t yet tuned in… podcast available via website, Spotify, Apple Music! 🎧 with Sarah Dowd on @historyffs.bsky.social!
👉 Listen, follow, rate, review now: podfollow.com/historyffs
#HistoryFFS #MusicAndMemory #HistoryPodcast #WWII #CulturalHeritage #Cello @oxmusicfaculty.bsky.social
👉 Listen, follow, rate, review now: podfollow.com/historyffs
#HistoryFFS #MusicAndMemory #HistoryPodcast #WWII #CulturalHeritage #Cello @oxmusicfaculty.bsky.social
Had a wonderful conversation with Sarah Dowd on @historyffs.bsky.social! - exploring music, memory, and the missing cello that connects generations. 🎻
Out now via website, Spotify, Apple Music! 🎧
👉 Listen, follow, rate, review: podfollow.com/historyffs
#HistoryFFS #HistoryPodcast #Cello
Out now via website, Spotify, Apple Music! 🎧
👉 Listen, follow, rate, review: podfollow.com/historyffs
#HistoryFFS #HistoryPodcast #Cello
October 21, 2025 at 8:37 AM
Had a wonderful conversation with Sarah Dowd on @historyffs.bsky.social! - exploring music, memory, and the missing cello that connects generations. 🎻
Out now via website, Spotify, Apple Music! 🎧
👉 Listen, follow, rate, review: podfollow.com/historyffs
#HistoryFFS #HistoryPodcast #Cello
Out now via website, Spotify, Apple Music! 🎧
👉 Listen, follow, rate, review: podfollow.com/historyffs
#HistoryFFS #HistoryPodcast #Cello
🚨🎙️ Episode 1 streaming next Tuesday 21 October 2025 ✨Excited to be opening the brand new @historyffs.bsky.social podcast series!
Be the first to listen 👉 historyffs.com Also available on Apple Podcasts and YouTube.
#HistoryFFS #Podcast #Cello #MusicHistory @oxmusicfaculty.bsky.social
Be the first to listen 👉 historyffs.com Also available on Apple Podcasts and YouTube.
#HistoryFFS #Podcast #Cello #MusicHistory @oxmusicfaculty.bsky.social
October 16, 2025 at 9:02 AM
🚨🎙️ Episode 1 streaming next Tuesday 21 October 2025 ✨Excited to be opening the brand new @historyffs.bsky.social podcast series!
Be the first to listen 👉 historyffs.com Also available on Apple Podcasts and YouTube.
#HistoryFFS #Podcast #Cello #MusicHistory @oxmusicfaculty.bsky.social
Be the first to listen 👉 historyffs.com Also available on Apple Podcasts and YouTube.
#HistoryFFS #Podcast #Cello #MusicHistory @oxmusicfaculty.bsky.social
🎶📚 FREE EVENT @goldsmithsuol.bsky.social 🎶📚
Join me & @elliechan.bsky.social for 'Music, life-writing & how to write about what you can’t hear.'
📅 15 Oct | 🕔 5–6pm | 📍 Goldsmiths (Richard Hoggart Building)
More info 👉 www.gold.ac.uk/calendar/?id...
@goldsmithsenglish.bsky.social
Join me & @elliechan.bsky.social for 'Music, life-writing & how to write about what you can’t hear.'
📅 15 Oct | 🕔 5–6pm | 📍 Goldsmiths (Richard Hoggart Building)
More info 👉 www.gold.ac.uk/calendar/?id...
@goldsmithsenglish.bsky.social
October 13, 2025 at 11:44 AM
🎶📚 FREE EVENT @goldsmithsuol.bsky.social 🎶📚
Join me & @elliechan.bsky.social for 'Music, life-writing & how to write about what you can’t hear.'
📅 15 Oct | 🕔 5–6pm | 📍 Goldsmiths (Richard Hoggart Building)
More info 👉 www.gold.ac.uk/calendar/?id...
@goldsmithsenglish.bsky.social
Join me & @elliechan.bsky.social for 'Music, life-writing & how to write about what you can’t hear.'
📅 15 Oct | 🕔 5–6pm | 📍 Goldsmiths (Richard Hoggart Building)
More info 👉 www.gold.ac.uk/calendar/?id...
@goldsmithsenglish.bsky.social
👏 Well played – the Brahms and that lovely cello tune in the #Haydn slow movement sounded great! 🎶
A triumphant concert Saturday night for #Oxford Sinfonia at University Church Oxford, brilliantly conducted by Dexter Drown 👏🍷 A well-earned drink afterwards!
#ClassicalMusic #LiveMusic #Cello
A triumphant concert Saturday night for #Oxford Sinfonia at University Church Oxford, brilliantly conducted by Dexter Drown 👏🍷 A well-earned drink afterwards!
#ClassicalMusic #LiveMusic #Cello
September 29, 2025 at 8:48 AM
👏 Well played – the Brahms and that lovely cello tune in the #Haydn slow movement sounded great! 🎶
A triumphant concert Saturday night for #Oxford Sinfonia at University Church Oxford, brilliantly conducted by Dexter Drown 👏🍷 A well-earned drink afterwards!
#ClassicalMusic #LiveMusic #Cello
A triumphant concert Saturday night for #Oxford Sinfonia at University Church Oxford, brilliantly conducted by Dexter Drown 👏🍷 A well-earned drink afterwards!
#ClassicalMusic #LiveMusic #Cello
Explored how we see music - instruments as art, sound as colour. We could have talked for hours @ @wolfsonoxford.bsky.social. @elliechan.bsky.social @oxmusicfaculty.bsky.social @duckworthbooks.bsky.social @headofzeus.bsky.social @oxfordlifewriting.bsky.social
September 24, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Explored how we see music - instruments as art, sound as colour. We could have talked for hours @ @wolfsonoxford.bsky.social. @elliechan.bsky.social @oxmusicfaculty.bsky.social @duckworthbooks.bsky.social @headofzeus.bsky.social @oxfordlifewriting.bsky.social
🎙️ Listen to my radio interview on Cello 🎻 and exciting new writing projects on Selina MacKenzie's Lifestyles Show on @tre.radio
Link here (near top of announcements): drkatekennedy.com
#Cello #AuthorInterview #ClassicalMusic #Books #OnAir
Link here (near top of announcements): drkatekennedy.com
#Cello #AuthorInterview #ClassicalMusic #Books #OnAir
September 15, 2025 at 12:54 PM
🎙️ Listen to my radio interview on Cello 🎻 and exciting new writing projects on Selina MacKenzie's Lifestyles Show on @tre.radio
Link here (near top of announcements): drkatekennedy.com
#Cello #AuthorInterview #ClassicalMusic #Books #OnAir
Link here (near top of announcements): drkatekennedy.com
#Cello #AuthorInterview #ClassicalMusic #Books #OnAir
At @royalalberthall.bsky.social. I was in the box with Ian Skelly: luscious harmonies with the @royalphilorchestra.bsky.social.
Gave a good BBC Radio 3 shout out to @nationalyouthchoir.bsky.social for their prom next week. An awesome bunch, and my 13 year old daughter had her life changed by them.
Gave a good BBC Radio 3 shout out to @nationalyouthchoir.bsky.social for their prom next week. An awesome bunch, and my 13 year old daughter had her life changed by them.
September 8, 2025 at 9:31 AM
At @royalalberthall.bsky.social. I was in the box with Ian Skelly: luscious harmonies with the @royalphilorchestra.bsky.social.
Gave a good BBC Radio 3 shout out to @nationalyouthchoir.bsky.social for their prom next week. An awesome bunch, and my 13 year old daughter had her life changed by them.
Gave a good BBC Radio 3 shout out to @nationalyouthchoir.bsky.social for their prom next week. An awesome bunch, and my 13 year old daughter had her life changed by them.
Spotted! 🎻 The paperback of Cello is now available!
📖 Grab your copy: amazon.co.uk/Cello-Journe...
@headofzeus.bsky.social @wolfsonoxford.bsky.social
#Cello #NewRelease #PaperbackLaunch #MusicAndWords #AuthorLife #BookLovers
📖 Grab your copy: amazon.co.uk/Cello-Journe...
@headofzeus.bsky.social @wolfsonoxford.bsky.social
#Cello #NewRelease #PaperbackLaunch #MusicAndWords #AuthorLife #BookLovers
September 3, 2025 at 8:41 AM
Spotted! 🎻 The paperback of Cello is now available!
📖 Grab your copy: amazon.co.uk/Cello-Journe...
@headofzeus.bsky.social @wolfsonoxford.bsky.social
#Cello #NewRelease #PaperbackLaunch #MusicAndWords #AuthorLife #BookLovers
📖 Grab your copy: amazon.co.uk/Cello-Journe...
@headofzeus.bsky.social @wolfsonoxford.bsky.social
#Cello #NewRelease #PaperbackLaunch #MusicAndWords #AuthorLife #BookLovers
Regretting introducing my little boy Isaac to this - thanks to the Early Music Shop at Snape Maltings, he’s planning to add a whole new element to his school orchestra.
August 21, 2025 at 8:32 AM
Regretting introducing my little boy Isaac to this - thanks to the Early Music Shop at Snape Maltings, he’s planning to add a whole new element to his school orchestra.
From Edinburgh to Snape - vibrant, fizzing festival to reed beds - here’s the view from the dressing room!
August 21, 2025 at 8:28 AM
From Edinburgh to Snape - vibrant, fizzing festival to reed beds - here’s the view from the dressing room!
Having the best time at @edbookfest.bsky.social - as many talks and shows as can be packed into 24 hours!
Couldn’t have had a better chair than Jo Buckley - such a great conversation!
#edinburgh #edinburghbookfestival #cello
Couldn’t have had a better chair than Jo Buckley - such a great conversation!
#edinburgh #edinburghbookfestival #cello
August 20, 2025 at 7:41 AM
Having the best time at @edbookfest.bsky.social - as many talks and shows as can be packed into 24 hours!
Couldn’t have had a better chair than Jo Buckley - such a great conversation!
#edinburgh #edinburghbookfestival #cello
Couldn’t have had a better chair than Jo Buckley - such a great conversation!
#edinburgh #edinburghbookfestival #cello
📦 Available now on Amazon for delivery from 14 August.
🔗 Tap the link: www.amazon.co.uk/Cello-Journe...
@headofzeus.bsky.social @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social @oxfordlifewriting.bsky.social @wolfsonoxford.bsky.social
#Cello #BookLaunch #PaperbackRelease #AuthorLife #ComingSoon #Bookstagram
🔗 Tap the link: www.amazon.co.uk/Cello-Journe...
@headofzeus.bsky.social @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social @oxfordlifewriting.bsky.social @wolfsonoxford.bsky.social
#Cello #BookLaunch #PaperbackRelease #AuthorLife #ComingSoon #Bookstagram
August 1, 2025 at 8:54 AM
📦 Available now on Amazon for delivery from 14 August.
🔗 Tap the link: www.amazon.co.uk/Cello-Journe...
@headofzeus.bsky.social @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social @oxfordlifewriting.bsky.social @wolfsonoxford.bsky.social
#Cello #BookLaunch #PaperbackRelease #AuthorLife #ComingSoon #Bookstagram
🔗 Tap the link: www.amazon.co.uk/Cello-Journe...
@headofzeus.bsky.social @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social @oxfordlifewriting.bsky.social @wolfsonoxford.bsky.social
#Cello #BookLaunch #PaperbackRelease #AuthorLife #ComingSoon #Bookstagram
Offer ends tomorrow.
Available only on the @waterstones.bsky.social website & app 📚✨
🛒 Use code SUMMER25 at the basket stage of checkout.
🔗 Link here: tidd.ly/412UZMq
@headofzeus.bsky.social @oxfordlifewriting.bsky.social @oxmusicfaculty.bsky.social
#Cello #WPreorder #BookLaunch #Bookstagram
Available only on the @waterstones.bsky.social website & app 📚✨
🛒 Use code SUMMER25 at the basket stage of checkout.
🔗 Link here: tidd.ly/412UZMq
@headofzeus.bsky.social @oxfordlifewriting.bsky.social @oxmusicfaculty.bsky.social
#Cello #WPreorder #BookLaunch #Bookstagram
July 30, 2025 at 8:38 AM
Offer ends tomorrow.
Available only on the @waterstones.bsky.social website & app 📚✨
🛒 Use code SUMMER25 at the basket stage of checkout.
🔗 Link here: tidd.ly/412UZMq
@headofzeus.bsky.social @oxfordlifewriting.bsky.social @oxmusicfaculty.bsky.social
#Cello #WPreorder #BookLaunch #Bookstagram
Available only on the @waterstones.bsky.social website & app 📚✨
🛒 Use code SUMMER25 at the basket stage of checkout.
🔗 Link here: tidd.ly/412UZMq
@headofzeus.bsky.social @oxfordlifewriting.bsky.social @oxmusicfaculty.bsky.social
#Cello #WPreorder #BookLaunch #Bookstagram
Talking biography and all things life-writing with some fabulous writers and academics in 🇳🇴 #Norway, University of South-Eastern Norway (USN) — and being absolutely spoilt rotten by them! ✍️📚✨
#LifeWriting #Biography #AcademicLife #Writing #StorytellingMatters @oxfordlifewriting.bsky.social
#LifeWriting #Biography #AcademicLife #Writing #StorytellingMatters @oxfordlifewriting.bsky.social
July 17, 2025 at 8:23 AM
Talking biography and all things life-writing with some fabulous writers and academics in 🇳🇴 #Norway, University of South-Eastern Norway (USN) — and being absolutely spoilt rotten by them! ✍️📚✨
#LifeWriting #Biography #AcademicLife #Writing #StorytellingMatters @oxfordlifewriting.bsky.social
#LifeWriting #Biography #AcademicLife #Writing #StorytellingMatters @oxfordlifewriting.bsky.social
🏰 Our castle — home of the Tuscan life-writing retreat ✍️🍷 Can’t believe we’re into our fourth year already!
#WritingRetreat #TuscanyRetreat #LifeWriting #WritersLife #CreativeRetreat #FourthYear #CastleLife #WritingCommunity #ItalyRetreat #StorytellingMatters #AmWriting #AuthorLife #RetreatMagic
#WritingRetreat #TuscanyRetreat #LifeWriting #WritersLife #CreativeRetreat #FourthYear #CastleLife #WritingCommunity #ItalyRetreat #StorytellingMatters #AmWriting #AuthorLife #RetreatMagic
July 15, 2025 at 12:03 PM
🏰 Our castle — home of the Tuscan life-writing retreat ✍️🍷 Can’t believe we’re into our fourth year already!
#WritingRetreat #TuscanyRetreat #LifeWriting #WritersLife #CreativeRetreat #FourthYear #CastleLife #WritingCommunity #ItalyRetreat #StorytellingMatters #AmWriting #AuthorLife #RetreatMagic
#WritingRetreat #TuscanyRetreat #LifeWriting #WritersLife #CreativeRetreat #FourthYear #CastleLife #WritingCommunity #ItalyRetreat #StorytellingMatters #AmWriting #AuthorLife #RetreatMagic
One of the many reasons I ❤️ working in Tuscany — the Scampanata! 🇮🇹🎺
Craziest tradition? The whole town of Anghiari gets up before 6am 🌅 and wakes up the last sleeper-in by covering them in flour, gunk, and a smelly fish 🐟💥 — then parades them through town.
It’s bloomin’ marvellous 🎶
#TuscanyLife
Craziest tradition? The whole town of Anghiari gets up before 6am 🌅 and wakes up the last sleeper-in by covering them in flour, gunk, and a smelly fish 🐟💥 — then parades them through town.
It’s bloomin’ marvellous 🎶
#TuscanyLife
July 15, 2025 at 9:38 AM
One of the many reasons I ❤️ working in Tuscany — the Scampanata! 🇮🇹🎺
Craziest tradition? The whole town of Anghiari gets up before 6am 🌅 and wakes up the last sleeper-in by covering them in flour, gunk, and a smelly fish 🐟💥 — then parades them through town.
It’s bloomin’ marvellous 🎶
#TuscanyLife
Craziest tradition? The whole town of Anghiari gets up before 6am 🌅 and wakes up the last sleeper-in by covering them in flour, gunk, and a smelly fish 🐟💥 — then parades them through town.
It’s bloomin’ marvellous 🎶
#TuscanyLife
🌞 Happy Summer Everyone!
If you're a follower, I’m excited to share upcoming videos, performances, and behind-the-scenes insights from my research and performance 🎶🎥
🔗 Website: drkatekennedy.com
📖 Book on Amazon: Cello: A Journey Through Silence to Sound
#SummerVibes #NewProjects 🎻🌿💫
If you're a follower, I’m excited to share upcoming videos, performances, and behind-the-scenes insights from my research and performance 🎶🎥
🔗 Website: drkatekennedy.com
📖 Book on Amazon: Cello: A Journey Through Silence to Sound
#SummerVibes #NewProjects 🎻🌿💫
July 10, 2025 at 8:34 AM
🌞 Happy Summer Everyone!
If you're a follower, I’m excited to share upcoming videos, performances, and behind-the-scenes insights from my research and performance 🎶🎥
🔗 Website: drkatekennedy.com
📖 Book on Amazon: Cello: A Journey Through Silence to Sound
#SummerVibes #NewProjects 🎻🌿💫
If you're a follower, I’m excited to share upcoming videos, performances, and behind-the-scenes insights from my research and performance 🎶🎥
🔗 Website: drkatekennedy.com
📖 Book on Amazon: Cello: A Journey Through Silence to Sound
#SummerVibes #NewProjects 🎻🌿💫
🐸 🎶 Midnight Bach with a chorus of #frogs and a glowing #tree dancer 🌳 Having a lot of fun in the south of France… #wacky concerts!
#MidnightConcert #BachAfterDark #SouthOfFranceVibes #FrogsAndFugues #SurrealPerformance #TreeDancer #GlowInTheDark #WackyConcerts #ClassicalMusicReimagined
#MidnightConcert #BachAfterDark #SouthOfFranceVibes #FrogsAndFugues #SurrealPerformance #TreeDancer #GlowInTheDark #WackyConcerts #ClassicalMusicReimagined
June 30, 2025 at 2:08 PM
🐸 🎶 Midnight Bach with a chorus of #frogs and a glowing #tree dancer 🌳 Having a lot of fun in the south of France… #wacky concerts!
#MidnightConcert #BachAfterDark #SouthOfFranceVibes #FrogsAndFugues #SurrealPerformance #TreeDancer #GlowInTheDark #WackyConcerts #ClassicalMusicReimagined
#MidnightConcert #BachAfterDark #SouthOfFranceVibes #FrogsAndFugues #SurrealPerformance #TreeDancer #GlowInTheDark #WackyConcerts #ClassicalMusicReimagined
Last night's evening sunlight over St Mary's in Hay - such a gorgeous venue! @hayfestival.bsky.social
May 23, 2025 at 8:04 AM
Last night's evening sunlight over St Mary's in Hay - such a gorgeous venue! @hayfestival.bsky.social
From the faded #Victorian splendour of the Grand Hotel in Folkestone to a great Parisian mansion preserved as a memorial once its Jewish family were deported - so moving to have Hermione Lee and Edmund de Waal in conversation.
@wolfsonoxford.bsky.social @oxfordlifewriting.bsky.social
@wolfsonoxford.bsky.social @oxfordlifewriting.bsky.social
May 21, 2025 at 8:51 AM
From the faded #Victorian splendour of the Grand Hotel in Folkestone to a great Parisian mansion preserved as a memorial once its Jewish family were deported - so moving to have Hermione Lee and Edmund de Waal in conversation.
@wolfsonoxford.bsky.social @oxfordlifewriting.bsky.social
@wolfsonoxford.bsky.social @oxfordlifewriting.bsky.social
A wonderful time performing our event with Cara Berridge in Kent for the Sacconi Quartet festival. We'll next be touring in #Wales this week, more to follow!
May 21, 2025 at 8:34 AM
A wonderful time performing our event with Cara Berridge in Kent for the Sacconi Quartet festival. We'll next be touring in #Wales this week, more to follow!