WHEN looking back over 2015 and its highlights, listening live to Hattie Briggs will be one.

The singer-songwriter performed at Salisbury City Hall on Sunday night as part of her first national support tour, Tomorrow will follow Today.

Supporting folk duo Kathryn Roberts and Sean Lakeman, she opened the evening’s concert with five songs switching between her acoustic guitar and a keyboard.

The 22-year-old’s voice is captivating and refreshingly beautiful. It causes your spirit to soar and remain floating high above the mountain tops.

It makes you marvel at life.

For someone so young, her songs on the late political activist Pete Seeger, her dog, love and the music industry contain an unexpected weightiness.

Based in Gloucestershire, Hattie quit Oxford University in the second year of a degree in Russian to concentrate on her musical career in January 2014.

Not long after, she was nominated for a BBC Radio 2 Young Folk Award.

Her debut album – Red & Gold – will most definitely be on replay in the car this summer but the clear quality of her voice just has to be heard live, with all production extras stripped away.

Hattie is a star – don’t miss the opportunity to see her if you get chance.

Kathryn Roberts and Sean Lakeman brought an energetic and varied show to the stage peppering their songs with fun and diverse anecdotes.

Memorable songs included 52 Hertz based on the true story of a lonely whale which calls at a higher frequency than others, one about a Mexican doll island, another on a Russian mermaid and my favourite, The Wisdom of Standing Still.

The husband and wife from Dartmoor were absent from the music scene for almost a decade before their highly acclaimed Hidden People album was released in 2012.

Sean had been touring the world with brother Seth’s band while Kathryn remained in Devon bringing up the couple’s daughters.

Last year, they were voted best duo at the 2014 BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards and have just released their latest album, Tomorrow will follow Today.

They were happy to be back in Salisbury and the audience were sad to see them leave at the end of the night, having very much enjoyed music from their latest album and a few songs from the past.

ELIZABETH KEMBLE