
Maz O’Connor ist ein aufstrebender britischen Folk-Star mit dem Talent traditionelle und zeitgenössische Folk Sounds zu verbinden. Sie singt eine Mischung aus traditionellem Folk Songs und eigenen poetischen Kompositionen. 2013 war sie für den BBC Folk Award nominiert und ist regelmäßiger Gast bei den bedeutendsten britischen Folk Festivals.
One of British Folk’s rising stars, Maz O’Connor is a gifted singer with a rare talent for fusing traditional and contemporary folk sounds. Performing a mixture of traditional folk songs and her own thoughtful, poetic compositions, Maz accompanies her uniquely pure voice with guitar, piano, shruti box and harmonium.
In 2013, a year after leaving university, she was nominated for the BBC Folk Awards Horizon Award and selected for a creative fellowship with the English Folk Dance and Song Society at London’s Cecil Sharp House, funded by the BBC Performing Arts Fund. Alongside her BBC fellowship, and singing Laura Marling’s music in the RSC’s ‘As You Like It’, she found time to team up with the highly acclaimed producer and award-winning folk artist Jim Moray to record ‘This Willowed Light’, her extraordinary second album. Critically acclaimed by a host of broadsheets and music magazines, songwriting was described by Q Magazine as remarkable, and her voice captivating …
Maz spent the Summer touring songs from the new album at festivals all over the U.K., including the 50th Cambridge Folk Festival and the prestigious WOMAD. Her performance at the latter was selected as a highlight of the festival both by BBC Radio 3 and The Independent.
Folk album of the year thus far ****’ (The Observer)
Densely rich album of thoughtful, meticulously constructed songs ****’ (Financial Times)
Maz’s plaintive vocals create moments of haunting beauty (Acoustic Magazine)
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