BBC News, Cambridge Folk Festival
Singer-songwriter Martha Wainwright bounded onto the stage in a black dress and pink stockings to woo the crowd at the 2008 Cambridge Folk Festival.
The festival has been part of the Canadian-American singer's life since childhood, she told the BBC before her set.
Wainwright used to accompany her mother and aunt - internationally acclaimed folk singers Kate and Anna McGarrigle - to the event, while her father is comic songwriter Loudon Wainwright III.
Her brother is award-winning sing-songwriter Rufus Wainwright.
 Martha sang the 1930s classic Stormy Weather as an encore at Cambridge |
And Wainwright has certainly lived her life in lyrics - in her own songs and her family's.
It is something, she insists, she has no regrets about.
"I think it's a privilege. It made me write songs in such a way that they are an extension of myself," she says.
Wainwright has always known her future lay in music. While she was good at mathematics at school, she never harboured ambitions of being an accountant.
When she was 14, she says, her maths teacher got a little angry with her for being lazy.
"She said to me 'What do you want to do? Do you want to sing and dance your whole life?' And I said: 'Yep'."
At Cambridge she gave a powerful, passionate performance, focusing on her acclaimed new album, You're Married But I've Got Feelings Too.
Amongst her own songs, the record includes a version of Pink Floyd's See Emily Play, written by Cambridge hero Syd Barrett, which the festival crowd lapped up.
