JOIN folk singer Maz O’Connor in a Live Lunch at Salisbury Arts Centre.

She will be performing her mixture of traditional, reworked folk songs with her own poetic compositions on Saturday, February 6.

In 2013, 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.

She sings both traditional folk songs and her own compositions, and accompanies her voice with guitar, shruti box, piano and harmonium.

Maz has been singing on the UK folk scene since she was 13-years-old. Her first festival appearance was as an entrant in a young performers’ competition, previously won by Kate Rusby.

Persuaded to enter by her brother, his band were runners-up while she scooped first prize.

“I think he was trying to encourage me to be more confident,” she said. “but it kind of backfired on both of us when I won. He actually wanted to perform in front of 1,000 people…”

And she has been gigging ever since.

Live Lunches start at noon, with a selection of hot and cold meals on offer. The event is free to attend.

For more information go to salisburyartscentre.co.uk