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Andrew Marston with Robert Plant (Kidderminster)

The best music from across Herefordshire and Worcestershire.

2 hours

Music Played

  • Woodfield

    Angelie

  • Willow Robinson

    I'll Tell You Goodnight

  • Shiraz Hempstock

    Rain

  • Sam Eden

    Ragdoll

  • Charlie Green

    The 90 & 9

  • Hennesea

    Drunken Sailor

  • In session at Worley's The Swan

    • India Parkman

      Distant Tides

    • India Parkman

      Spotlight

  • Flatworld

    Oupa Tsupa

  • Dave Onions

    Inner City

  • Abby Inez

    Say What You Think

  • Tom Griffin

    Ain't No Place Like Home

  • Indigo Kings

    How Can It Be

  • Thomas Parry

    Dancer

  • Maha Dave

    Excuse Me Sir

  • Will Killeen

    Cripple Creek

  • Mae Bradbury

    Your Harbour

  • KeyGreen

    Fadedown

  • KoGo Project

    Do It

  • Remi Harris

    Lady Madonna

Led Zeppelin's 50th anniversary

Led Zeppelin's 50th anniversary
Will Led Zeppelin reform for their 50th anniversary?

It's the question on everybody's lips - but one many people have been too afraid to ask Kidderminster rock god Robert Plant.

Until he popped into 大象传媒 Hereford & Worcester, that is.

"We're planning to get together and talk about it.

"It's very difficult to find stuff that still is unheard from such a long time ago.

"Not only will it be 50 years, but it will be 38 years since John passed away. There's really nothing been going on since then.

"There will be a book of photographs. Beyond that, musically, there's bits and pieces lying around - not an album, or anything like that.

"But there will be a celebration somewhere; a cork will pop!"

Frank Freeman's, Kidderminster

Frank Freeman's, Kidderminster
The story of Frank Freeman's, in Kidderminster, is being brought back to life in a new play on tour throughout Britain.

The Dancing Club, produced by Pippa Frith and written by Caroline Jester, is based around the remarkable and inspirational true story of Kidderminster legends Frank and Wynn Freeman and their selfless drive to get a town dancing.

Through the traditions of ballroom dancing to the explosion of rock and roll, northern soul and disco, the Kidderminster couple continued to inspire Kidderminster to move for more than six decades - with people learning the waltz, one night, and watching live music from Marc Bolan, Captain Beefheart and Led Zeppelin the next.

A young Len Goodman gave demonstrations and judged the dance students at Frank鈥檚 school.

It would eventually become the place John Peel would go on to hold a DJ residency, often playing recordings from the venue on his Radio 1 show.

The Sunday Session

The Sunday Session
Ledbury's India Parkman was born in Singapore, to a Chinese-Indian mother and British father, before moving to the UK at the age of three.

She started learning piano just 12 months later. She says "being a poor sight-reader, I learnt all my set pieces by heart and began to recreate songs I'd heard on the radio or TV by ear."

Soon she was experimenting with chord progressions and melodies and had written her first song.

Her influences include Coldplay, Adele and Lana Del Rey and India discovered a love for A capella while at university.

鈥淗aunting and beautiful melodies, delivered with a spine tingling performance鈥 - Andrew Marston.

Charlie Green

Charlie Green
Britain's Got Talent star Charlie Green, from Droitwich, this week celebrates the end of a 37-date UK tour.

Charlie, who's been supporting Jimmy Osmond on the Moon River & Me tour, has just come back from the States where he's been performing in a theatre set up by the late Andy Williams.

Having just released his first original EP, Charlie will be performing his first-ever solo gig with an orchestra at Worcester's Huntingdon Hall on April 6.

Features

  • : What's on across the region.
  • :听Andrew Lloyd Webber听celebrates the work of a Worcestershire school.

大象传媒 Music Introducing in Stourport

大象传媒 Music Introducing in Stourport
At the end of February, we descended on a place that was once primarily a hotel to record our latest sessions.

But behind the doors of the The Swan in Strourport is not only a live performance space, that鈥檚 putting the town back on the musical map, but also a brand new recording studio.

We took along artists handpicked from the 大象传媒 Music Introducing uploader to perform in front of a live audience 鈥 and also for you!

Oh Danny Boy

Oh Danny Boy
The Weeping Window display of poppies have been unveiled at Hereford Cathedral - but did you know that the writer of two of the most famous songs sung in the First World War trenches went to school just yards away?

The ceramic poppy sculptures were first displayed at the Tower of London where 888,000 flowers were displayed - one for every British or Colonial life lost at the Front during the First World War.

Danny Weatherly was one of the soldiers who died in action - his father Fred Weatherley wrote Danny Boy for him and was also the man behind Roses of Picardy, a song used to help the troops to recover from trauma.

大象传媒 Music Introducing in Kington

大象传媒 Music Introducing in Kington
Our next recording session will take place on Sunday, 25 March in Kington.

We're bringing along handpicked musicians from Herefordshire and Worcestershire to record their live sessions for broadcast.

They've all uploaded their tracks to the听大象传媒 Music Introducing Uploader听- but didn't know they were being considered for this incredible opportunity.

The free event takes place at the Oxford Arms and the live music starts at 2pm.

Broadcast

  • Sun 18 Mar 2018 18:00

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