CANADIAN songwriter Lynne Hanson, with her band the Good Intentions, will headline next month’s Music in the Hall in Bewdley.

She grew up in Ottawa and started playing guitar when she 14-years-old, learning on a hand-me-down from her older brother. She released her award-winning debut album Things I Miss in 2006, and with many tales to tell, two more albums quickly followed.

Eleven Months was released in 2008, followed by Once the Sun Goes Down in 2010. Each new release garnered critical praise, earning Hanson a Canadian Folk Music Award nomination in 2009, an invitation to the Kerrville Folk Festival as a New Folk Finalist and, a year later, the prestigious Colleen Peterson Songwriting Award handed out annually by the Ontario Arts Council.

Her songs may be full of grit, but her live performances are polished, whether she is playing solo or with her band, the Good Intentions. She has toured Canada, the USA, Europe and the UK.

On July 1 she will be supported by young local blues sensation Sunjay who, since being a Young Folk Award finalist in the 2012 BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards, has embarked on a career that sees him travelling around the UK.

Next month’s Music in the Hall will take place at St George’s Hall from 7.30pm on Friday, July 1.

Tickets are £8 and are available from the Hall Café or online at thehall-bewdley.org.uk.