Hattie Briggs

Hattie Briggs, one of four nominees for this year's BBC Radio 2 Young Folk Award, is a singer/songwriter sharing her time between Oxford and Stroud. Brought up on the mellow strains of James Taylor and Eva Cassidy, she's been singing for as long as she can remember.

Having taken guitar lessons at school, she started to teach herself the basics of piano at 17 and was surprised when she sat down at the keys one day to find her first song "Without a Smile" forming itself within the space of an hour. She has been writing and recording new material since then and released her debut EP "My Shepherd's Hut" in November.

Hattie is a natural and sensitive performer and songwriter with a unique, unaffectedly expressive voice and style. Her songs are crafted with a maturity that belies her twenty years, and an honesty that when combined with her presence on stage will win over the hearts of any audience.