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Andrew Marston with highlights from the Upton Folk Festival

Unsigned, undiscovered and under-the-radar music from Herefordshire and Worcestershire.

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Music Played

  • Bleeding Hearts

    Their World

  • Lawrence Taylor

    Bang Bang

    • DLM.

  • Son Of A Way

    Her

  • Alex Valentine

    Edge Of The Bed

    • Struck Dumb.

  • Bethan & The Morgans

    Parted Ways

  • Arcadia Roots

    Dream On

  • Simon Vincent

    Tiny Sun

  • New album

    • Trevor Babajack Steger

      Sawdust Man

  • Appeared at the Malvern Winter Gardens

    • Mott the Hoople

      The Debt

      • Island.

  • Under A Banner

    Light Breaks Through

  • Stone Mountain Sinners

    Old Town

  • On tour

    • Roving Crows

      Riverside

  • Keys

    Ballintoy

  • Son Of John

    Wild Bill Jones

  • One Degree Under

    Changing Man

  • The Affair

    Nathalie

  • Sarah Jones

    One Step Forward

  • BiiJ: But Is It Jazz?

    Spellbound

4 - 7 May: Upton Folk Festival

4 - 7 May: Upton Folk Festival
Upton Folk Festival takes over Upton-On-Severn, bringing its usual range of great performers with the folk genre.
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Expect sessions in many of the pubs across the town and a general feel good weekend to kick off the festival season.
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The event is now in its third decade.
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Malvern Winter Gardens

Malvern Winter Gardens
60 thousand pounds has been granted to a team in Malvern to create an exhibition and online archive of the town's rock music history.
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The Winter Gardens it currently home to the town's theatre, but between the '60s and '90s it played host to some of the biggest names in rock and metal music.
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The Jam, Joy Division, The Pretenders, Judas Priest and AC/DC are among some of the big names to have appeared over the years.
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Features

  • : Big Love & Upton Folk Festivals.
  • : Worcester's Peace back with a third album.

On tour

On tour
A Ledbury band are currently on tour in Australia after winning a top award.
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The Roving Crows picked up the International Artist of the Year at the Australian Music Awards 12 months ago - and are the festival's guest of honour this year, performing four times this weekend!
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The group has been a firm fixture on the local music scene after moving to Colwall from Gloucestershire. But it all began for main songwriter Paul O'Neill in Kildare, Ireland, before attending a performing arts college in New York City.
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The band , courtesy of us, and now run their own! They're the people behind Lakefest and, wanting to return the favour, they gave us our very own 大象传媒 Music tent.
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Early support from Introducing included playing support to Jamie Cullum at Colston Hall in Bristol and regular features as Track of the Week.
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Performing for the Pope

Performing for the Pope
The choir of Hereford Cathedral are to make history - they have been invited to Rome to sing for the Pope and will be the first Anglican Cathedral choir to do so since the Reformation.
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The invitation is part of the Pope's programme to encourage diversity and celebrate common ground between different churches.
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The choir will sing a Papal Mass in the Sistine Chapel on St Peter's Day in June.
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大象传媒 Music Introducing Musicians' Masterclass

大象传媒 Music Introducing Musicians' Masterclass
It was the biggest new music business gathering to ever to be held in the UK, with more than 100 sessions and 250 speakers ensuring every aspect of the music business was covered.
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Held across three days, Amplify offered exclusive access to the UK music industry鈥檚 biggest names through intimate talks, music masterclasses and recording workshops.
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This week, we eavesdrop into the Bob Harris UK Country Takeover featuring and talking about the importance of collaboration.
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大象传媒 Music Introducing at the Hay Festival

大象传媒 Music Introducing at the Hay Festival

It's a pick 'n' mix shop that straddles the Herefordshire-Wales border and swells the population of Hay-on-Wye early each summer.
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We'll be there again, this year, on Sunday, 27 May with some of our favourite handpicked musicians from Herefordshire & Worcestershire, recording four sessions for broadcast across two events.
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Then on Tuesday, 29 May, 大象传媒 Music Introducing presenter Andrew Marston quizzes two of Hay's most prolific hit-makers about the science behind a No.1 record.
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Alan McGee was the founding father of Creation Records, responsible for signing bands such as Oasis, Primal Scream, My Bloody Valentine and The Libertines. Alan was also behind a club night which saw appearances from The Killers, Kaiser Chiefs, Razorlight, Kasabian and The Darkness.
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Jim Eliot has had seven UK top 10 singles 鈥� that鈥檚 the same number as Adele. But just who is this one-man hit factory? Jim鈥檚 written and produced songs for Kylie Minogue, Will Young, Olly Murs, Ellie Goulding, Christina Perri, Sophie Ellis Bextor, Leona Lewis, James Morrison, Rae Morris, Sigma and Foxes 鈥� and does all of this tucked away in the shadows of the Black Mountains.

Broadcast

  • Sun 6 May 2018 18:00
    大象传媒 Hereford & Worcester

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