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Hal Cruttenden

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Lisa KnappMusic

WITH a voice clear and sharplike cut glass that glittershauntingly, Lisa Knapp is thefolk world’s absolute darling.The South-London bornsongstress and disgustinglytalented multi-instrumentalistis currently up for three awardsat the BBC Radio 2Folk Awards 2013– namely bestfolk singer, bestalbum and bestnon-traditionaltrack – with thewinners set to beannounced inFebruary.Plus she’s stunning (not justanyone can make using aseashell as a telephone lookcool), and her husband, GerryDiver is quite a catch too –he’s accompanying her on thefiddle on tour.All this and she actuallycame quite late to folk after awonderfully misspent youthclattering about at raves andleaping about to hip hop. But

then she got hooked andfearlessly hauled the violin she

learnt at school outof the loft and gotplaying.Her debutalbum Wild andUndaunted swiftlywon MOJO FolkAlbum of The Year2007 while thecritics cannot get

enough of her 2013 recordHidden Seam (which hasbeen plastered with a five starreview from the Guardian andlooks like a runaway favouritefor the Folk Award).Why not go and see what allthe fuss is about?On the night there’ll also besupport from moustachioedsinger-songwriter TomMcConnell.

SELF-styled “stand-upcomedian, writer andactor who’s scared ofmice and people”(according to hisTwitter bio), HalCruttenden is bringinghis Tough Luvvieto CambridgeJunction.He’s donequite a fewodd jobsin TV –includinga job onEastEndersfor a start –but is ratherenjoying life asa stand-up andcomic writer (Omid Djalili Showuses a lot of his

lines for instance). Therehave been a myriad ofappearances on Live At

The Apollo, Mock theWeek and Have I

Got News For You,and he’s baggedhis first Radio 4

sitcom, Hal, thisyear too.See him chat onabout all things

football, Facebookand food related withhis trademark “mix ofcamp and straight,warm and cattyhumour”. It shouldbe a right laugh.

� Lisa Knapp, CambridgeJunction, Monday, February 2at 8pm. Tickets £13.50 from(01223) 511511 / junction.co.uk

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