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Andrew Marston with coverage of the Upton Folk Festival

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

• Celebrating the 30th anniversary of the Upton Folk Festival.

• Wet Wet Wet are on - talking about touring with Redditch singer Lucy May Walker.

• How a row over visas led to the opening night of the HellensMusic Festival, near Ledbury, being cancelled.

• Part two of first-ever live gig from Stourport bus driver - and now King of Soul - Ethon Fyffe.

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Sun 5 May 2019 18:00
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Hereford & Worcester

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Music Played

  • Oysterband

    All That Way For This

    • Cooking Vinyl.

  • Jules Rendell

    Let Go

  • Lexie

    Feet On The Ground

  • Tazmin Barnes

    Breathe

    • Big Help.

  • Jack Goodall

    Halloween Moon

  • Loula

    Memory

  • In session

    • Ethon Fyffe

      Only One Man (Live from the Railway, Redditch)

    • Ethon Fyffe

      Couldn't Have It All (Live from the Railway, Redditch)

  • Ben Crosland

    First Rain Of Summer

  • The Fireside Family

    Come To Me

  • Appearing at the Big Feastival

    • Saint Alto

      Tell Me Something

    • Lucy May Walker

      Without Him (Live)

  • Marie-Claire Bereen & Her Husbands

    Happy Song

  • Chloe Fergson

    Touch

  • In the Gig Guide

    • Lucy Shaw

      Fall In Love With The World

  • Clive John

    Lucky One (God Help Me)

  • Cydonia Collective

    Canopy

3 - 6 May: Upton Folk Festival

Upton Folk Festival takes over Upton-On-Severn, bringing its usual range of great performers with the folk genre.

This year is the festival’s 30th birthday and they promise a specially extended festival to celebrate.

Expect sessions in many of the pubs across the town and a general feel good weekend to kick off the festival season.

Supporting Wet Wet Wet

Lucy May Walker is a singer/songwriter, from Redditch, whose musical journey has been taking her to places far and wide.
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We had her in session, in Leominster, back in 2015. She then appeared on ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Midlands Today in Birmingham. University then took Lucy to Cumbria before headingÌýto London where she followed her heart and established herself as a regular on the busking scene.
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During one of her gigs, at a railway station, Jeremy Vine discovered Lucy and invited her to appear on ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 2.
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Lucy is now heading across the country supporting Wet Wet Wet on their latest tour and has secured a spot at this summer's Big Feastival, after we put her forward through ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Music Introducing.

ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Music Introducing in Redditch

This month's sessions were recorded at the Railway in Redditch, which has become one of the main go-to venues for live music in the area.
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Every month, we rock up to one of our leading local venues at towns and cities across the region to reflect what's hot on the local scene.
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In session

Ethon Fyffe is a singer/songwriter from Stourport and works in Worcester as a bus driver.
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He's into pop, RnB and hip hop and recently started writing soft rock tracks.
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He plays the guitar and piano but is an amazing singer.
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Influenced by artists such as Stevie Wonder, Prince and Craig David - this was Ethon's FIRST-EVER gig!
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"An amazing soulful sound. A definite star of the future." - Andrew Marston
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HellensMusic nr Ledbury

The organisers of a Herefordshire music festival say they're disappointed that their opening performance had to be cancelled after the star of the show had her visa refused.
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Hani Mojtahedy was due to perform at the Hellens Music Festival, in Much Marcle on Friday, but a mix up meant that she'd applied for a tourist visa instead of an artists' visa.
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The Kurdish singer-songwriter is known across the world for her work championing women's rights.

Features

  • In the gig guide: The lineup for the Upton Folk Festival and St Richard's Canal Festival in Droitwich.
  • In the news: A Redditch DJ's new club night created especially for those with learning difficulties.

ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Music Introducing at the Hay Festival

At ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Music Introducing in Hereford & Worcester, we support the very best new music from across the region.
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Since 2005 we’ve broadcast more than a thousand sessions, helping to showcase some of our area’s most talented musicians.
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We’ve handpicked some of our favourite acts to join us on stage at Hay.
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These artists didn’t even know they were being considered – and we hope this inspires people to keep sending in their music, because we really do listen to everything.
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These sessions will be broadcast throughout June on ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Hereford & Worcester on Saturdays at 8pm and Sundays at 6pm.
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Broadcast

  • Sun 5 May 2019 18:00
    ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Hereford & Worcester

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