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Gorgeous melodic, acoustic vibes from the Leominster singer-songwriter. Plus Bewdley's Becky Hill is on, fresh from her huge homecoming in Worcester. With Andrew Marston.

Warning: This show may contain future headliners! Andrew Marston introduces the best new music from our area, including:

• We’re at the Marr’s Bar in Worcester for a rare, intimate set from Bewdley's Becky Hill, back where it began for our BBC Introducing superstar, as Everywhere At Once puts grassroots venues and their impact firmly centre stage.

• Hearing from Lissy Taylor after performing to 13,000 people in Tuscany, continuing a journey that’s moved from Stoke-on-Trent through to major international festival stages.

• In our Music News: Shrewsbury's Acrobvt head on a European tour with Anastacia for a second year.

• This week’s Featured Artist is Emily Mayflower, a Shrewsbury nurse who honed her craft busking while studying at university.

• Stoke-on-Trent’s Static Dress are set for a global breakthrough this month, heading on tour across America, Australia and Europe, while marking the moment with a new music video filmed at the historic King’s Hall in their hometown.

• Our Festival Guide looks ahead to a packed summer weekend, from Worcester Mela to Upton’s WooFest, Redditch SummerFest, AlderFest in Whitchurch, Cheshire’s Tributes on the Hill and Brit Fest, Staffordshire’s Trentham Summer Concerts and Weston Park’s Camperjam Festival, near Shifnal.

• He started at 16 on his grandad’s decks and has gone on to play Creamfields and Ministry of Sound. Biddulph’s Jordan Tilstone joins us after Claywork at Gladstone Pottery, reflecting on a night where some of the city’s most iconic kilns became the backdrop for a truly one-of-a-kind dancefloor.

• It's the last in our series from StourJam, a brand-new event that’s already the biggest UK charity music festival based on the number of live music performances, bringing 344 artists across 15 venues and 20 stages over three days. This week we hear from Leominster's Jordan Au, raised in a musical family, who made a life-changing decision at 21 to quit drinking and rediscovered music through songwriting.

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Music Played

  • BBC Introducing's First Play

    • Stiggy

      Locked Away

  • KiLNE

    Disconnect

    • Mother City.
  • Appeared at the Marr's Bar, Worcester

    • Becky Hill

      Hands On Me

      • Polydor Records.
  • BBC Introducing's First Play

    • Bottleneck Collective

      Lab Curation

  • Performed in Italy alongside Jack White and The Hives

    • Lissy Taylor

      Feel For Me

  • Never Stay Down

    We Turn To Gold

  • In Session

    • Jordan Au

      Getting Older (Live from Stourjam, Stourport)

    • Jordan Au

      Keep On Keeping On (Live from Stourjam, Stourport)

  • Sacha

    I Said

  • Chris Whitehouse

    Love Me Again (feat. Mikel)

  • BBC Introducing's Featured Artist

    • Emily Mayflower

      Rich Man's Warning

  • Klay

    Bad Bassline

    • Klay Records.
  • On Their World Tour

    • Static Dress

      Hospice

  • Released last month

    • Joshua Cooke & Ali Reece

      Hillside

      • So Let's Talk.
  • In Session

    • Jordan Au

      Going Nowhere (Live from Stourjam, Stourport)

    • Jordan Au

      Love Is Everything (Live from Stourjam, Stourport)

  • Claywork at Gladstone reflections

    • Jordan Tilstone

      Alumina

  • Released last month

    • Hattie Rose

      Did I Do Too Much?

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