Mary Hampton
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While reading 20th Century Music at University, she heard something very strange on a friend’s mixtape in between Frank Zappa and Penderecki.
It was an English folksong…The Snow it Melts the Soonest by Anne Briggs.
It was the sheer exoticism of this sound alone that set her on her current path.
After recording two EPs of traditional folksongs at home (Book One and Book Two), she wrote her first original album: a collection called “My Mother’s Children” which was released by Navigator Records in August 2008 and went on to be named #4 folk album of the year in MOJO magazine’s 2008 round-up.
She toured in the US in Spring 2009 - a double-bill tour with American anti-folk heroine Diane Cluck - and extensively after that in Britain, including a national tour for the Greenman Festival
Her second album, Folly, was released in 2011.
“terrifying and gorgeous, epic and tiny, unusual and strong… ‘My Mother’s Children’ is an album I know I am going to love for life.” - Eliza Carthy
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My Mother's Children
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Book One: Six Songs Of Refusal
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Book One
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maryhampton
The curious can listen and download our new song "Gold Hat", a setting of the epigraph from the beginning of 'The Great Gatsby' by F. Scott Fitzgerald, on Bandcamp... x http://maryhampton1.bandcamp.com
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maryhampton
Last Mary Hampton Cotillion show of the year is on November 3rd at Hanover Community Hall, 33 Southover Street, Brighton, with Crayola Lectern and Do You Feel What I Feel Deer. Tickets £6, doors 8pm, BYO.
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supernormalfest
Mary Hampton Cotillion are playing this year's Supernormal Festival - http://supernormalfestival.co.uk - tickets are only £65 for the whole weekend and it's going to be a blinder! If you're coming, let us know on here so we can get to know all you lovely people :-) http://www.last.fm/festival/3144149+Supernormal+Festival
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magp1e
Achingly gorgeous music.
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bullroarer
So so wonderful. And although I have no idea what an "Irish Celtic lilt" means, I think I kind of can hear it.
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nothingunusual
Chilling fragile voice. Very lovely. Although I can't hear this 'Irish lilt' the description refers to.
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zvyagir1
Worth about 10,000 Laura Marlings, I'd say.
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thegreatpark
First show in Berlin on the 23.02.10: http://www.last.fm/event/1376794+The+Great+Park+at+Soupanova+on+23+February+2010
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tomorrowsparty
Some of her vocal inflections have an Irish element, only subtly though.
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ziggystarbucks
could the person who wrote this artist's description explain to me what an "Irish Celtic lilt" sounds like and which mary hampton song they might be referring to?
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tomorrowsparty
Wonderful album, she deserves more recognition.
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voodoolounger
I like it!!!
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zonalGman92
fantastic soundz +great voice
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