Once upon a time, in deepest, darkest Dartmoor, there lived a boy who played the fiddle. Young Seth Lakeman went on to record Kitty Jay, an album of songs inspired by local tales and legend and recorded in his brother's kitchen.

In 2005, he then found himself nominated for the prestigious Mercury Music Prize alongside the Kaiser Chiefs and Antony and the Johnsons. The judges were wowed by Seth's "urgent, thrilling and haunting" music.

After touring Libya and performing in front of 100 inmates in Dartmoor Prison, Seth is bringing his four piece folk-rock band to Southampton's The Brook.

He will be performing songs from his new album, Freedom Fields, which was also recorded among the pots and pans of his brother's kitchen. It is easy to understand how Seth can find inspiration from his Dartmoor home. Like all good singer songwriters, he is a masterful storyteller. Kitty Jay was named after a pregnant servant girl who hanged herself in the rafters of a Dartmoor barn. Because she had committed suicide, her body could not be buried in consecrated ground so she was left beside a crossroad. Even now, flowers are laid on her grave, although nobody has ever seen who puts them there.

Seth Lakeman at The Brook, Sunday 9 April. Tickets: 023 80555366 www.the-brook.com.