Hannah Martin

Edgelarks fly in on the tailwind of BBC award winning duo Phillip Henry & Hannah Martin. The new band name comes with a new project, taking the roots of their previous work, from the traditional musics of the British Isles and Indian classical slide guitar to the stomping roots party of Phil's beatbox harmonica; adds a strong stem of original writing; and runs wilder with each repeat play.

The pair began their musical journey living in a caravan in the hills near Exmouth, Devon, England. They were playing in alt-roots outfit The Roots Union, travelling from festival to festival, tent to tent, wandering the highways, byways, and old forgotten pathways of these islands. They followed in the footsteps of the ancient troubadour tradition, picking up tunes, songs and stories along the way. Spotted busking by champion of independent music Steve Knightley, they found themselves touring nationally, supporting the likes of @ShowofHands and @SethLakeman, eventually winning the prestigious Best Duo award at the 2014 BBC Folk Awards.

Edgelarks, which is both their new band name and 4th studio album, talks about places & people of transition & change. The liminal – borders, crossroads, travellers, refugees, twilight, dawn. That these thresholds, despite often being places of marginalisation, are also places of change – and therefore places of hope. That in the end, we have far more in common than things that divide us, because we are all liminal – we are all just passing through.