BBC Radio 2 Folk Award winner for Best Original Song
Lisa emerged in 2007 with a remarkable debut and as a highly distinctive artist from one of the most creative and active underground music scenes of recent times. She merges a radiant style of traditional folk and self-penned song, with fiddle, hammer dulcimer, strings, banjo and sonic delights from the technological age.
'The hidden seam is unpicked and a vibrant creative force flows down the years to anoint Lisa, filling her lungs with the gift of song. The result is a masterpiece.' Folk Radio UK
Ruth Gordon plays as many instruments as she can get her hands on and sings'a gentle rolling stream of stories and melodies that will echo in your head all week'. She plays banjo, guitar, ukulele, and flute and also sings in Cakes and Ale and the Ninetree Stumblers. She currently lives in Bristol and is working on her first solo album. Her lyrics have been described as'a wonderful mixture of the strange, the whimsical, the dark and the light'.