The arts centre will host a performance by musician Lisa Knapp as she embarks on a full-band UK tour.

The performance on October 11 at the Arts Centre will take place right in the middle of her nationwide tour of the Hidden Seam album.

With rave reviews, a cover feature in Roots magazine and airplay on 6 Music, BBC Radio 3 as well as a Mark Radcliffe Folk Show live session, the second album sees Lisa firmly re-established as one of the most creative and distinctive artists around.

Lisa emerged in 2007 with a remarkable debut Wild And Undaunted, with a radiant style of traditional folk and self-penned song, with fiddle, hammer dulcimer, strings and sonic delights from the technological age.

Born and bred in south London her musical development led her through drum and bass, teenage raves, acid house and an electric guitar bought to learn Jimi Hendrix songs.

In her teens, she also came across folk music when she heard a friend’s parents’ record collection.

She then found for herself the extraordinary voices and the vivid stories of Annie Briggs, Shirley Collins, Martin Carthy and Pentangle.

In the intervening years, Lisa has established and evolved her own distinctive voice – absorbing a whole a range of influences and inspirations – and crafting a sound, and songwriting skill, at once beautiful, dramatic and adventurous.