[2] Successful tours with Bragg and Christy Moore,[1] and appearances on regional and national BBC radio were met with critical acclaim.
[citation needed] In the intervening years, Trettine continued to record material, experimenting with different styles and working with a range of collaborators.
She was then invited by Spencer Roberts to join The Winnebago Orchestra with whom she made two albums – Fifteen and Born in the Sun – on the German label, Tuition (Schott International), in 2006 and 2008.
They played two introductory gigs at the Edinburgh Festival and the Centre for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow, Scotland, before releasing their first album Golden Key in May 2011.
Since 2004, Trettine has written a number of chamber musicals, two of which – The Silver Machine, Learning to Walk – she performed at the London's Rosemary Branch Theatre, in 2007 and 2009.
Over the last decade, her interest in modern classical music has significantly evolved and she has composed a number of guitar concertos and symphonies for chamber orchestra.
Their album Waters Wide, produced by Felix Macintosh, was played on BBC Radio 6 Music and met with critical acclaim: "wistfully sweet...excellent" (Gideon Coe, BBC Radio 6 Music) and "wonderful and really lovely" (Peter Culshaw, The Arts Desk).