Mary Hampton is a British writer, performer and promoter of songs living in Brighton, England. She works within folk and related acoustic traditions, and is also listed with classic pop and rock among her genres.

Early background

While studying 20th Century Music at university, she hears an English folk song, “The Snow it Melts the Soonest” by Anne Briggs, on a friend’s mixtape. She describes that encounter as the point that sets her on the path she follows in music.

Recordings

She records two home-made EPs of traditional folk songs, Book One and Book Two, before releasing her first original album, My Mother’s Children, on Navigator Records. The album is later named the number four folk album of the year in MOJO magazine’s 2008 round-up.

Her second album, Folly, follows in 2011.

Performing and touring

Hampton tours in the United States in spring 2009 on a double bill with American anti-folk singer Diane Cluck. She also tours extensively in Britain, including a national tour for the Green Man Festival.