Mary Hampton is a writer, performer and promoter of songs living in Brighton, England. 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)...

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