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Andrew Marston with details of our area's newest festival

• He once toured with Mike & The Mechanics; we’ll be hearing from Worcester musician Paul Menel.

• Hearing about a brand new festival in our area - being set up by Kidderminster’s Kemp Hospice.

• How a singing group in Worcestershire is improving the lives of its members.

2 hours

Music Played

  • Dean Hopkins

    Bang Bang Bang

  • The Inspiration

    Take Me Ö÷²¥´óÐã

  • Kentucky Fryd

    Nowhere Road

  • Phil Hickin

    Impressive

  • Artist of the Week

    • Paul Menel

      Spanish Mane

  • Matt Woosey

    She Just Called To Say Hello

    • Confidential.
  • Rachel

    Living In The Moment

  • Hennesea

    Pebble On The Shore

  • BiiJ (But is it Jazz?)

    La Gothique

  • Lisbee Stainton

    Unsung

    • Marionet.
  • Stone Mountain Sinners

    Tons Of Ö÷²¥´óÐã

    • Sonny Jim.
  • Carol Lee Sampson

    Hey You

  • Bo Walton

    Faster Than Time

    • Jump Jack.
  • Sally Night

    I Loved You So Much More

    • So Cosmopolitan.
    • Global Soul.
  • Lewis Boulton

    One-Seater Ride

  • Appearing at our Redditch recording session

    • Ethon Fyffe

      Could've Had It All

  • The Indigo Kings

    The Note

KEMPfest

A Wyre Forest hospice will host its first-ever music festival, in August, to celebrate its 50th birthday.
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Kemp Hospice was founded in 1969 and it costs £1.5m a year to provide free healthcare to its patients and their families.
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The inauguralÌýcelebration will be taking place at SHED Food & Drink in Crossway Green, near Stourport, on Sunday, 18 August.

Artist of the Week

This week, we're championing the sound of a Worcester musician who, in a previous life, fronted a prog-rock band signed by the managers of Def Leppard that went on to support Foreigner, Jethro Tull, Ronnie Wood and T'Pau.
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Famous fans include Mike Rutherford, of Mike & The Mechanics, who invited Paul Menel's band IQ to tour their classic album 'The Living Years' and compared Paul's vocal style to that of Paul Carrack.
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Since his time with IQ, Paul moved to Worcestershire, grew a family and will be going back out on tour this year.

Voices Unlimited

It's a group of more than 100 people who regularly get together in Worcester to sing their hearts out, but Voices Unlimited would describe themselves as a world away from a 'conventional choir'.
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Members say being part of it has changed their lives: "I had a big health scare. I wrote my own funeral. I was going to tell people what I regretted. When I got better I joined this wonderful group of people and I have sung ever since."
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Another singer said: "I actually suffer with depression and I decided to do something with my life. I joined seven years ago and have never looked back. It's this massive great family every week."
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Another said: "I'm part of 100 and I'm not the best singer here and I'm probably not the worst, but I love it. It just brings something to your life that you just never knew that you could have and love."
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The group meets most Tuesday evenings at St. Peter's Church Hall in Worcester and toÌýfind out more, visit

Features

Ö÷²¥´óÐã Music Introducing in Redditch

Ö÷²¥´óÐã Music Introducing is returning to 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 pitch 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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Join us from 2pm-6pm to see the best new music in town. Admission is free.
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