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Hailing from London, UK, Dan Nash is a true purveyor of traditional acoustic blues. His authentic interpretation of the blues standard songbook has entertained audiences from the deep south of Mississippi and New York City to the Carolinas, his native UK, across mainland Europe and South East Asia.

Dan’s versatile guitar style covers the whole blues genre from ragtime and traditional fingerpicking styles to Delta slide and Chicago Blues.  With the core of his performance driven by his vocals and echoed by his guitar, Dan’s solo act is an intimate and intense experience between the artist and his audience.

With hundreds of gigs behind him, a coveted Danny Kyle Award from Celtic Connections, and three awards from Italy’s premier world music festival, Elliott Morris has a formidable reputation as one of the hardest-working and most sought-after artists on the acoustic scene.

The singer-songwriter, featured in Acoustic magazine as ‘The Next Big Thing’, accompanies heartfelt lyrics with a unique guitar style – favouring open tunings, his extended techniques include percussive hits, string tapping, and occasionally slide.  Half English, half Scottish and raised in Wales and Lincolnshire, Elliott has continued this journey by honing his craft on the road. He has played all across the British Isles, from Orkney to Jersey, Boston to Llangrannog, Belfast to Clonakilty. And further afield, he’s headlined shows in Germany, Holland, Ireland and Canada.

Influenced by the acoustic guitar artistry of the 1960’s and 70’s, Henry Parker and David Ian Roberts play a style of folk-guitar music originally pioneered by artists such as Bert Jansch & John Renbourn and more recently Ryley Walker & Bill MacKay. Established singer-songwriters in their own right; the pair of musicians now present intricate instrumental duets from their highly anticipated debut album alongside original, lyrical song-writing.  Yorkshire and Cardiff based guitarists Henry Parker and David Ian Roberts met in 2019 when their respective folk-influenced albums ‘Silent Spring’ and ‘Travelling Bright’ were finding their way to new audiences via a series of co-headline tours across England and Wales. ….. The result of this collaboration is an album of all-original, steel-string instrumentals which blur the lines between traditional folk, psychedelia, and progressive music, bound by the beautiful simplicity of two acoustic guitars.

With seven albums and five books to her name, independent British singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, composer and poet Emily Maguire has had 3 singles playlisted on Radio 2, toured the UK extensively with the likes of American legend Don McLean and been interviewed on Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour, Front Row, Midweek and numerous regional BBC Radio stations.

Former lead singer and guitarist of the much-loved band, Trophy Wife, Jody Prewett was also an original member of the equally popular Jonquil, also fleetingly playing keys with math rock pioneers TTNG.  Having recently released an album of nature-inspired guitar instrumentals, ‘Trails’, Jody continues to strike out on his own distinctive path as a solo artist. He has been regularly impressing audiences with his inventive guitar playing, soulful vocals and striking lyrical imagery.