We are thrilled to officially launch the HEARD Collective with an all-female line-up featuring some amazingly talented singer-songwriters!
Lineup:
HEARD Collective featuring solo sets and collaborations from:
Daisy Chute
Cerian
Hannah White
Fabia Anderson
Meg Ella
Jelly Cleaver
Tickets £8 in advance from the link above, or £10 on the door.
Singer-Songwriters Daisy Chute and Cerian co-founded the collective HEARD after they first met in the studio recording vocals for Radiohead album A Moon Shaped Pool in 2016 and then singing Ilan Eshkeri’s score for the Burberry fashion show shortly after. Both multi-instrumentalists with Celtic roots and renowned for their angelic voices, they decided to combine forces and form a new collective of female musicians who tour together, play together and support one another. The idea was born out of a desire for more female representation in the industry:
“So often we were finding ourselves in the studio or on a lineup as the only female voices. When we investigated further, we discovered that online magazine Pitchfork had found that only 14% of acts in American festivals in 2017 were female, and according to UK collection agency PRS only 16% of allsongwriters/composers registered were female...we wanted to ‘open’ the window of opportunity, creating a collective of women not working against, but with and for each other.”
Between them they play a dozen different instruments from classics like guitar and piano to the more unusual harp and banjo. For this concert they will join together onstage with special guests Hannah White, Meg Ella, Fabia Anderson and Jelly Cleaver, combining their talents to share original songs and newly-crafted arrangements of classics.
Hannah White - https://www.hannahwhitemusic.com/
The artist the Evening Standard calls "an activist", Hannah White is politically-inclined, an active humanitarian and an advocate for independent musicians and writers all over the UK; But most of all she is the "arresting and wholly believable" (Acoustic Magazine) singer-songwriter that captures the hearts of her audiences nationwide gaining her acclaim from BBC Radio 2, BBC 6 Music, RnR Magazine, Maverick Magazine, Blues Matters and many more.
As honest as they come, Hannah White is a story-teller in the old-fashioned sense, earning her a reputation as "an artist who can deliver social conscience in the folk troubadour style of a Judy Collins or Joan Baez" (Country Music Magazine), however Hannah takes her stories across genres, transporting her fans through a journey that meanders seamlessly from catchy pop, to gritty blues, to heart-breaking country.
Fabia Anderson - www.fabiaanderson.com
"Best discovery... Mixing Regina, Antony and Tori into something pretty otherworldy." - Peter Guy, GetIntoThis
Emerging singer-songwriter FABIA enamours with piano and voice, her distinctive style described as transcending.
Meg Ella - http://megella.net/home/
Meg Ella is a Welsh singer/songwriter, multi instrumentalist, MD, composer and arranger working in London, UK. She graduated from Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance in 2016 where she studied classical cello and jazz vocals. She now works across the UK and around the world as a freelance session musician, songwriter and composer/arranger.
“[We were] captivated immediately, by both her pure, effortless singing and warmth of her voice, and by her emotional but honest delivery” - Othon Matargas
Jelly Cleaver - https://www.jellycleaver.com/
Heavily inspired by the singer-songwriters of the 1960s and 70s like Joni Mitchell, Bob Dylan and Tim Buckley, Jelly draws from Americana and Psychedelic rock as well as traditional English folk songs. Having started playing the guitar aged five, she plays over ten different instruments on her debut album, ‘Cure for an Existential Crisis’, including recorder, harmonica and mandolin. Her unique finger-picking style on electric guitar is the backdrop of the album, but there are also luscious arrangements for strings, flutes and horns. She combines her ponderings on existential philosophy with Romantic poetry and traditional folklore, set to a chamber folk soundtrack.
Cerian - http://www.cerianmusic.com/
London singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, Cerian, has been described as a cross between Kate Bush, Joni Mitchell and London Grammar. She weaves together melodic vocals and rich harmony with a love of poetry and literature, her songs often quoting from legendary writers such as William Blake, Percy Bysshe Shelley and Lewis Carroll to create heartfelt poetic musical journeys.
Cerian was classically trained in voice, harp, piano and guitar and brings together a wide variety of different influences and musical experiences along with the full utilisation of her extensive vocal range to create beautifully soaring songs. Having sung with the likes of U2, Radiohead, Sam Smith, Neneh Cherry, Imogen Heap, Tom Chaplin, Laura Mvula, Newton Faulkner and Charlotte Church, she is now taking on the world with her own brand of contemporary ethereal folk-pop and having successfully released her debut single “Wasteland” this Summer, now presents her much-anticipated second single “Seasons”.
Daisy Chute - https://www.daisychute.com/
Edinburgh-born, half-American, hyphen-loving Daisy Chute is a folk songstress and multi-instrumentalist with a particular penchant for the banjo. Formerly of Decca’s platinum-selling
chart-topping classical group All Angels, she is excited to be working on her début album of original songs with
producer and songwriter Tim Baxter (Andy Burrows, Editors, Nick Mulvey, Jasmine Thompson).
A regular in the London music scene and an award-winning singer and songwriter, Daisy has just become the winner of the Coffee Music Project Singer Songwriter Competition, and has been mentored by rock royalty Sir Ray Davies, featured as a vocalist and orchestrator on sessions for film scores and band albums and even got the thumbs up from Sir Paul McCartney after a performance at The Royal Albert Hall. One of Paul Sexton's 'top music tips' for 2018, Daisy's music has been compared to Simon and Garfunkel and Joni Mitchell (BBC Radio Kent) and her voice has been described as “Exquisitely delicious. Delicate, like a gossamer-winged creature made out of spun gold."