Tilly is a mandolin player and singer songwriter from Suffolk, now based in York. She has been performing all over the country since the age of just 13, supporting some of the best-loved folk acts in the UK, and in 2017 released her long awaited debut album Alight & Adrift, to incredible critical acclaim.

The album features the talents of many extraordinary musicians, including BBC Folk Award Winner Sam Kelly, Mercury Prize Nominee Kit Downes, and BBC Folk Award nominated band Mawkin’s James Delarre, amongst others. It has been praised by critics and audiences alike and is already a firm favourite in the folk world and beyond.

Tilly’s carefully crafted songs address subjects as diverse as climate change, gender inequality, apathy, love, and leaving home, and she delivers them with an extraordinarily powerful, passionate vocal style, and a colourful stage presence.

Following an impressive summer of performances, including playing the main stage at FolkEast festival, performing on stage with the Mekons at Mekonville, and beguiling audiences at Beverley Folk Festival, Stepping Stones Festival, and the Big Comfy Bookshop, Tilly has spent the last couple of years writing brand-new material with influences from a range of different musical backgrounds, in a mission to expand even further.

The new album includes songs about body positivity, battling ableism, and finding a home in other people.

“Tilly’s songs are masterpieces of emotional raw power... Tilly possesses an uncanny ability to communicate her messages and narratives with total conviction and an immediacy and intellectual as well as emotional depth.' - FATEA Magazine

“A great voice, an elegant way with words, emotional depth and a general graceful assurance. If she were to become a star it would do credit to stardom.” - Richard Carrington, Cambridge Local Secrets.

‘Wow. She’s incredible. A tremendously exciting artist...' - BBC Introducing