The Grey Lady Music Lounge, Tuesday 22nd August 2017

Luke is a rising 19 year old Roots singer/songwriter from Canterbury, Kent, and 2013 saw him nominated for both the Horizon Award for Best Emerging Talent and the BBC Radio 2 Young Folk Award. 

With a bold, show stopping voice and honed guitar skills, Luke is a confident and captivating performer demonstrating an astonishing maturity. He has been making ripples on the live acoustic scene supporting such luminaries as Show of Hands, Paul Brady, Chris Wood, Steve Knightley, Karine Polwart and Oysterband. Last autumn he made his debut in Scotland, winning praise for a stand-out voice, songwriting skill and stage presence that completely belies his years.

His debut album More than Boys, produced by the acclaimed Welsh singer-songwriter Martyn Joseph, launched at the  Shrewsbury Festival, has been receiving plaudits from critics and airplay on numerous radio stations and 2014 sees the release of his accomplished follow up album, Fumes and Faith, which Luke has co-produced with Cardiff-based American record producer Mason Neely It’s a belting roots and blues infused album of 11 original songs and his voice is richer, his fan base is bigger and he has delivered startling performances on the UK festival scene, from Cambridge to Sidmouth and The Great British Folk Festival.

With a wealth of finely-observed narrative songs, The album emphasises the exceptional maturity and versatility of one of the most exciting young singer songwriters and live performers on the scene!

“A great singer, a great songwriter and a really commanding presence” – Mike Harding

“A fantastic voice,  a great year and a terrific new album” - Simon Mayo, BBC Radio 2

“For a while after Nic Jones and Chris Wood there was a big gap and you wondered where the next generation was coming from – now Luke’s the next guy” – John McCusker

“A huge talent is emerging” – Acoustic Magazine

“An affecting and highly promising debut album – one to watch” – Daily Telegraph

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Duke first picked up the acoustic guitar at the age of 16, and has made a swift rise from amateur guitarist to accomplished singer-songwriter, taking inspiration from artists such as Jack Johnson, John Mayer, Ed Sheeran and Jake Bugg. In 2013, he recorded his first EP titled ‘The Valley’, with a full backing band, which is available on iTunes and Spotify. In 2014 he recorded ‘Hand in Hand’, his second EP, which is now available in CD format. Having performed at the Pizza Express Music Room in Maidstone, and at the Pheasantry in London, he is now eager to compose more original songs and widen his repertoire. 

Duke recently finished university, and now works in Brighton.

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Dover based William Thomas is a rising young original Singer-Songwriter who has spent the last number of years mastering and honing his craft performing to live audiences both within the U.K. and more recently throughout Europe.

As a confident and captivating performer William has an innate ability to capture the moment and appeal to the demographic he finds before him, he does so via a thoughtfully balanced mix of original and well known cover songs.

His debut EP “Come The Autumn”, recorded at Anchor Baby Recording company by Dan Lucas, featuring tracks with well-known Folk Singer-Songwriter Luke Jackson, has received an overwhelming amount of positive feedback from fans and the industry combined.

At this moment in time William Thomas is the textbook "under the radar" artist, but possessing a very cool, distinctive and engaging vocal, superb mastery of the guitar and not only clever songwriting but material which allows him to eloquently convey sentiment and depict imagery to the listener, this combined with the fact that's he's simply just a nice guy will ensure that deservingly he won't be under that radar for much longer.

“His voice is present and warm with a strong mid-range and understated rasp and it is immediately clear he knows how to write songs that show off his vocals to best effect.” - FATEA Magazine.

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Imy Laurie is a eighteen year old singer song writer who has been singing at various open mic gigs since she was twelve and also furthered her musical instrument abilities in guitar and piano. From her classical training at school, Imy has achieved all of her singing grades, but she has found her interest lies in a folk and acoustic style of singing which was inspired from artists such as Laura Marling and Ryan Adams. Her heartfelt songs and unique singing tone is what makes her distinctive as she aspires to succeed in her music ambitions as she begins at BIMM Bristol in September to start her vocals degree and continue trying to develop her talent.

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