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Andrew Marston catches up with our local buskers

Unsigned, undiscovered and under-the-radar music from across the region.

• We'll have the latest on the Roadmap to Recovery and what the new restrictions will mean for musicians and music lovers.

• Catching up with our local buskers, who will be able to return to our high streets from tomorrow.

• Hearing from the Worcester-founded charity Help Musicians on their efforts to tackle mental health and financial issues fuelled by the pandemic.

• In our Music News: The international violinist, from Bromsgrove, who's now selling dog clothes around the world - after lockdown cancelled all of her gigs.

• Our Home Thoughts From Abroad whisks us off to sunny Spain and a Pershore ex-pat who's become a professional entertainer.

• In our Musicians' Masterclass: Making It As A Producer - an insight on how to get started in production, whether making your own tracks or producing for others.

• Meeting the local stars of this year's Brit Awards, including the pink-leopard-spotted-haired 220 Kid from Weobley, as 2.9m people tuned in!

• John Hellings remembers the local band started by a school leaver…which included former teachers!

• Previewing the new album by Redditch poet Spoz, who was Making A Difference during the pandemic raising thousands for Acorns Children's Hospice.

4 hours

Music Played

  • Sammi Elston

    Heartless

  • Free Keziah

    Cabernet Circus

  • Amie

    Storm

  • Song Of The Month

    • Beth Prior Collective

      Bridges

  • George Moir

    Lonely (feat. Blossom Caldarone)

    • Infectious.
  • Emma Linney

    No Boundary (feat. The Rosebourne Duo)

  • Busking In Focus

    • Jeremy Johnson

      Time

  • Devon Mayson

    I Still Want You

  • Henry Maybury

    Next To Me

  • MENTAL HEALTH AWARENESS WEEK

    • Matt Woosey

      You And Me

      • Desiderata.
      • 7.
  • Andy Lowe

    Treasure Map

  • Dan Owen

    Beauty In Disaster

  • Brit Awards in focus

    • 220 KID & GRACEY

      Don't Need Love (Acoustic)

      • Polydor.
    • Elton John & Years & Years

      It's A Sin

      • Virgin/EMI.
  • Stuart J Thomas

    Gotta Start Stoppin'

  • MENTAL HEALTH AWARENESS WEEK

    • Vinny Peculiar

      A Girl From Bromsgrove Town

      • Shadrack & Duxbury.
  • Badeye

    Because Of You

  • Sally Night

    New York Whistle

    • So Cosmopolitan.
    • Global Soul Records USA.
    • 5.
  • Burning Salt

    Born Again

  • Tommy and the Vines

    Prose And English

  • Miller Blue

    Blush

    • Anti Fragile.
  • Record Of The Week

    • Dash

      Around My Thoughts

  • Gregory S Davies

    Wanted

  • MENTAL HEALTH AWARENESS WEEK

    • Mitch Loveridge

      One Day

  • Sean Gaffney

    No Need To Sleep

  • Calming River

    The Actress Pt.II

  • Gareth Swindail-Parry

    The Long Road Home

  • Philip Bell

    Fascinating Camper

  • Mick Riddell

    You Are New York City

  • Dorothy Watkins

    Breathe

  • Grafton Ash

    Everything Changes

  • Hayley In The Red Dress

    Keys

  • Teddy Matthews

    Confusion

  • Jakey Boy Hughes

    Carolyn

  • Bekki Cameron

    Beautiful Girls

  • Simon Othen

    First Day Of Summer

Broadcast

  • Sun 16 May 2021 18:00

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