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Andrew Marston introduces Ben Crosland (Worcester)

Unsigned, undiscovered and under-the-radar music from the Hay Festival.

鈥 Highlights from last weekend's GlastonBeoley, which looks set to smash last year's total raised for charity.

鈥 Rounding up our coverage of this year's Mello Festival, near Upton.

鈥 The local stars who appeared on the final of Britain's Got Talent.

鈥 More of our highlights from Kington's Ellie Goulding at Radio 1's Big Weekend.

鈥 Session tracks from Ledbury's India Parkman on our stage at the Wychwood Festival.

鈥 Worcester's Ben Crosland with his magical sounds in the 主播大秀 tent at the Hay Festival.

2 hours

Music Played

  • Lucy May Walker

    Safety Net

    • Grizzly Records.
  • Phil Hickin

    No Excuses

    • New End.
  • The Fireside Family

    Confusion

  • Shiraz

    Rain

    Remix Artist: Dobie.
    • Pussyfoot Records.
  • Jakey Boy Hughes

    Winter Of Our Love

    • Everybody On The Shore.
  • Hannah Clayton

    No Touch

  • In session

    • Ben Crosland

      Rainbow Hill (Live from the Hay Festival 2019)

    • Ben Crosland

      Melting Snow (Live from the Hay Festival 2019)

  • Jamie Knight & The Acoustic Tree

    Show Me The Night

  • Mellow Deep

    Endurance

  • 主播大秀 Music Introducing stage takeover

    • India Parkman

      Fall In Line (Live from the Wychwood Festival 2019)

    • India Parkman

      Curtain Closing (Live from the Wychwood Festival 2019)

  • Fdluxx

    Always & Forever (feat. Garot Michael Conklin)

  • Mae Bradbury

    Bones

  • Ellie Goulding

    Hollow Crown (Live from Radio 1's Big Weekend 2019)

  • Ellie Goulding

    Burn (Live from Radio 1's Big Weekend 2019)

  • Phil Haynes

    Believing Is Seeing

  • In session

    • Ben Crosland

      A Story Untold (Live from the Hay Festival 2019)

    • Ben Crosland

      First Rain Of Summer (Live from the Hay Festival 2019)

In session

Ben Crosland started playing the piano aged five and credits the beautiful countryside that surrounds his home city of Worcester and the Malvern Hills as his inspiration.

His new album is called Songs From Rainbow Hill, which overlooks the house where he's now lived for more than two decades.

鈥淥ne of the finest pianists in the Midlands鈥 right now 鈥 mesmerising鈥 - Andrew Marston.

Highlights: GlastonBeoley

The second-ever GlastonBeoley took place, last weekend, near Redditch.

This new local festival brought 38 artists from around the Midlands to perform across two stages.

The event was organised by local music duo Imaner; last year they raised 拢10k for charity.

Ellie Goulding at Radio 1's Big Weekend & Interview

The Herefordshire musician started singing as part of her drama classes at Lady Hawkins High School, while living in Kington, later performing at Open Mic nights while attending Hereford Sixth Form College - at Doodies (which is no more) on St Owen's Street.

And she's Herefordshire's most successful-ever export - having achieved more top 40 records than the Pretenders and Mott The Hoople put together.

Throughout June, we're hearing tracks from her performance at Radio 1's Big Weekend in Middlesbrough.

Tonight, we'll also hear from Ellie talking about a surprise karaoke performance she gave in New York City and news about her forthcoming album.

主播大秀 Music Introducing at the Hay Festival

This month's sessions were recorded in the 主播大秀 tent at this year's Hay Festival.

The 2019 festivities featured more than 600 speakers across 11 days - including musicians Billy Bragg, The Gipsy Kings and The Waterboys.

According to festival director, Peter Florence, some 270,000 tickets were sold with attendees from over 40 countries, ranging from Afghanistan to Argentina.

Highlights: Mello Festival nr Upton

The organisers of the Upton Sunshine Festival moved their secondary festival, Mello, to a new site at Hanley Castle, last year, from its previous home at Throckmorton Airfield.

This year, Goldie Lookin' Chain, EMF and Craig Charles graced the stages - with people travelling from all over Europe to attend.

Performing to 8.2 million people

Worcestershire Rock Choirs joined a star-studded line-up as they performed at the live final of Britain's Got Talent.

8.2 million people tuned in to watch 89 year-old Chelsea Pensioner Colin Thackery be crowned the winner.

The choir performed 'A Million Dreams', from The Greatest Showman, alongside Susan Boyle and Michael Ball.

主播大秀 Music Introducing at Wychwood

More than 100 acts performed at the 15th anniversary of the Wychwood Festival on a redesigned part of Cheltenham Racecourse.

Since 2010, 主播大秀 Music Introducing in Hereford & Worcester has been showcasing the best local talent at this annual event, taking over from Tom Robinson on stage curation duties.

Originally, Gloucestershire and the seven counties that surrounded the festival would suggest artists to a number of high profile executives in the music industry who鈥檇 decide the final 28.

Over the years, we鈥檝e become the last ones standing 鈥 being able to choose our prime acts to take to centre stage at this prestigious event.

We鈥檒l be hearing highlights from our 主播大秀 Music Introducing stage takeover over these next couple of weeks.

Session tracks: India Parkman

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 before discovering a love for A capella at university and it's her dream to write, and perhaps produce, for a living.

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

Features

  • In the Music News: Busted join the line-up at the Upton Festival.
  • In the Gig Guide: Details of Bromsgrove鈥檚 Sonic Rock Solstice, Hereford鈥檚 Gillow Festival and Leominster鈥檚 Echofest.

主播大秀 Music Introducing in Malvern

At 主播大秀 Music Introducing in Hereford & Worcester, we support the very best new music from across the region.

Since 2005 we鈥檝e broadcast around 1,500 sessions, helping to showcase some of our area鈥檚 most talented musicians.

We鈥檝e handpicked some of our favourite acts to join us on stage at the Malvern Cube on Sunday, 14 July from 7.30pm.

These artists didn鈥檛 even know they were being considered 鈥 and we hope this inspires people to keep sending in their music, because we really do listen to everything.

Admission is free.

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