THE buzz is continuing to grow around Lisa Knapp’s critically-acclaimed new album Hidden Seam.

The BBC Radio 2 Folk Award winner is performing at Bridport Arts Centre with her full band on Saturday, October 11.

Lisa, who hails from south London, said she is looking forward to bringing her sound to Dorset.

“I’ve played Lyme Regis and I once played in Worth Matravers, right on the coast.

“I’d love to have a wander along the Jurassic coast and people tell me Bridport is lovely. So, I’m not that familiar but would love to see more.”

Earlier this year, Lisa scooped a BBC Radio 2 Folk Award for Best Original Song for Two Ravens.

She was also nominated for Folk Singer of the Year and Best Album.

Lisa said: “It’s always nice to receive an award for something. I think that as it’s some sort of recognition from one’s peers, people one admires, that makes it special.

“It’s hard to say what makes a particular song take off and others not so much.” Lisa’s debut album, Wild and Undaunted, featured a style of traditional folk and self-penned song, with fiddle, hammer dulcimer, strings and sonic delights from the technological age.

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 came across folk music when she heard a friend’s parents’ record collection.

Hidden Seam has a distinctively gothic quality to it, with the artwork featuring Knapp draped across a wooden boat which is journeying across stormy seas.

The first track, Shipping Song, has Knapp singing out the Shipping Forecast, making ‘Dogger’ and ‘Lundy’ sound ethereal and beautiful – listen out for ‘Portland’!

She said: “I wanted the music to be very illustrious so it’s very full in terms of sounds and arrangements and instruments. Gerry [Diver], who worked very closely producing the album, also gave it a lot of drama.

“I think the songs seemed to command it somehow, they seemed like ‘big’ songs. I knew I wanted something dramatic, gothic perhaps, for the cover. “I’d wanted to work with photographer David Angel for quite a while. “He has a very rich, gothic style in much of his amazing work so I thought this seemed like a perfect match.

“He came up with some fantastic ideas, like using the boat and having the pictures of animals in the cover as little characters. “Another friend of mine, Hope, then almost magically acquired this beautiful boat which we used in the garden at EFDSS Cecil Sharp House one chilly February afternoon.”

In between her gigs Lisa says she will be doing ‘boring things’, like housework and catching up on sleep.

Lisa Knapp is at Bridport Arts Centre on October 11.