Hazel Askew is a singer, multi-instrumentalist and composer from London, creating music inspired by the folk traditions of England and beyond.

She is a respected performer on the folk scene, most notably with BBC Radio 2 Folk Award nominated trio Lady Maisery and traditional duo The Askew Sisters. With them, she has toured folk festivals, arts centres and venues in the UK and Europe, had albums critically acclaimed in the national press, performed live on BBC Radio 2, 3 + 4 (Front Row, Woman’s Hour, World on 3, In Tune, Folk Show, The Early Music Show) and was recently a guest on the BBC Radio 3 Desert Island Discs style show ‘This Classical Life’. She’s been three times nominated for BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards and was part of the 10 woman supergroup Songs of Separation who won Best Album at the 2017 BBC Folk Awards. Lady Maisery’s most recent album ‘tender’entered the Official Indie Album Charts at number 18, the Official Indie Album Breakers Chart at number 3 (rare accolades for British folk) before spending a whole year in the Official Folk Chart's top 40. 

Outside of the music world, Hazel was a performer in Sky/HBO/Punchdrunk’s Bafta nominated 12 hour live broadcast ‘The Third Day’ and was recently associate musical director and an actor musician on the no. 1 UK tour of Fisherman’s Friends The Musical. She was composer and musical director on Darren Ellis Dance’s shows ‘The Long Walk Home’ and ‘Running World’, Ben Crystal’s Shakespeare Ensemble’s ‘Macbeth’, ‘Twelfth Night’ and ‘Henry V’, Shakespeare in Styria’s ‘King Lear’, as well as More Film’s shorts ‘Intenational Men’s Day’ and the trilogy ‘Tales’.

Hazel is currently support by Arts Council England DYCP fund.