Lady Maisery

In the 3 years since Lady Maisery's acclaimed second album Mayday was released, Hannah James has toured her pioneering solo show Jigdoll and collaborated with Estonian accordion virtuoso Tuulikki Bartosik, Hazel Askew made critically acclaimed album In The Air or the Earth as half of The Askew Sisters, and Rowan Rheingans won her first BBC Radio 2 Folk Award for Best Original Track as part of The Rheingans Sisters, whose album Already Home (2015) was one of the most celebrated folk albums of last year.

The uniquely captivating Lady Maisery return with Tender, their first studio album in six years. The band's combined talents of Hazel Askew, Hannah James and Rowan Rheingans (individually three of the most accomplished and adventurous artists in modern folk) have created a musically audacious, boldly political and manifestly personal record that reaches far beyond their previous work. The album comprises original songs written by Lady Maisery, as well as contemplative and personal interpretations of work by Bjork, Tracy Chapman and the late Lal Waterson.

Lady Maisery are an English folk vocal harmony trio composed of Hannah James (vocals, piano accordion, clogs, foot percussion) Hazel Askew (vocals, concertina, harp, bells) and Rowan Rheingans (vocals, fiddle, banjo, bansitar).

Songs of Separation' brought together ten female folk musicians from Scotland and England, to create a recording which reflects on the issue of 'separation' in its many forms, through traditional song.