AWARD-WINNING folk musician Seth Lakeman returns to the Lighthouse in Poole tonight ( Friday December 16).

Seth has successfully steered English folk music into the mainstream with high energy performances and a series of bestselling albums over the last ten years.

The multi instrumentalist will be singing songs from his latest album, Ballads Of The Broken, which was produced by Ethan Jones and released in September.

It is the singer songwriter's eighth album and is a collaboration with an emerging harmony vocal trio Wildwood Kin.

Between them they have conjured up an epic, soulful album of intense songs that are stripped back to their very essence.

Ethan who has produced albums for the likes of Ryan Adams, Kings of Leon, Paul McCartney and Tom Jones, to name a few, agreed to produce the album after Seth sent him one roughly recorded song on his mobile phone, with the trio of girls adding their harmonies to the cult folk singer's gritty lead vocals.

Continuing the folk musician's vision for recording in inspiring locations – previous albums have been made in a church and a copper mine – the 11 tracks were cut live in the Great Hall of a Jacobean manor house.

Over the past few years, in between writing and recording albums, he has played to audiences around the world, become a dad to twins, played with the BBC concert orchestra and presented a show on BBC radio 2.

Tickets are available from lighthousepoole.co.uk