Louisa Jo Killen, who sang for most of her career as Louis Killen, was a Gateshead singer who helped found one of Britain’s first folk clubs in Newcastle and led the way in using the English concertina to accompany song. Admired for ballads and sea songs, she moved to America in the late 1960s and sang with the Clancy Brothers, then later returned to Tyneside.
Louisa Jo Killen
Singer and concertina player; recorded as Louis Killen
- Born
- 10 January 1934, Gateshead, County Durham
- Died
- 9 August 2013, Gateshead, Tyne and Wear
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