The Hear No Evil Sessions: Hannah Scott | Tues 13 October 2026 | 7:30 - 9.30PM

THE HEAR NO EVIL SESSIONS PRESENTS HANNAH SCOTT

We transform our shop come bar into an intimate club style venue for these acoustic sessions.

“She reduces women and children to tears - in a good way…” The Guardian
“…and grown men.” Tom Besford, English Folk Expo & Richard Haswell, Liverpool Philharmonic
“This is beautiful.” Dermot O’Leary, BBC Radio 2
“Wonderful songwriting.” Seth Lakeman
“She screams class but in the quietest way possible.” Folking.com

“Your music moved me to tears.” This is the refrain contemporary folk artist Hannah Scott regularly hears as she leaves the stage.

The best stories make us feel deeply and in the 15 years she has been writing and
performing, Hannah has become an exceptional storyteller. Her music is shaped by
human connections, with family, in all its chaos and glory, sitting at the heart of her work.
Her lyrics are powerful and poignant, and her voice feels strangely familiar, though you
can’t quite put your finger on why. Her writing may be deeply personal but her music
has a universal appeal that goes beyond the melodies you catch yourself humming in
the days after listening to her songs.

The connection she builds with her audiences is most evident in the stories shared after
her performances: the woman whose elderly mother lost a sibling in childhood and is
moved to tears by Boy In The Frame; the young father who, upon hearing My Dad & I,
realises he wants to spend more time with his small children; the adoptive parents who,
like Hannah as a step-parent, may not have been the first person to hold their child, but
Love You Like I Did. A deep-rooted desire for this connection has always been the
driving force behind her songwriting and live performances.

Born in Suffolk and raised by an artist mother and an eccentric entertainer father, with
music going back three generations to her songwriting great-grandmother, creativity
was always destined to be an integral part of Hannah’s life. At the age of four, her father
bought a second-hand piano for £70 from a friend in the pub and she didn’t look back,
falling in love with both playing and listening to classical music. Picking up a guitar in
her early teens as the influence of her peers and more contemporary music took hold,
Hannah taught herself some simple chords that would lay the foundation for her earliest
attempts at songwriting.

Hannah’s career highlights include having her song No Gravity featured on the hit
international TV series Grey’s Anatomy, recording a live session on BBC Radio 2 with
Dermot O’Leary and opening for Madeleine Peyroux, performing to an audience of two
thousand. She has also shared the stage with folk luminaries such as Seth Lakeman,
Cara Dillon and Fairport Convention and has performed at festivals including
Cambridge, Sidmouth and Manchester Folk. Equally at home in small venues, she
thrives on the intimacy of performing in spaces where she can look audience members
in the eye, and, of course, speak with them after the show.

Hannah is set to release her new EP, Threads, a follow-up to the widely praised 2024
album Absence Of Doubt. It marks the first release she has both written and produced,
working alongside acclaimed engineer Adrian Hall (Tori Amos, Anna Calvi). Inspired by
family, nostalgia, grief, and a desire to change the rental market for the better, these
songs embody an unwavering yearning for life, even in its darkest moments.
“I’m sorry, but also not sorry,” Hannah replies to the audience member moved to tears,
so pleased her songs have connected in just the way she hoped they would.