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BorderLine Crossing

Fronted by singer Chele Willow, formerly of Las Vegas, and playing a lively mixture of folk, rock, blues and Americana style, BorderLine Crossing is based in Warwickshire,UK. Their line-up sees the return to an essentially acoustic sound that has proved popular at folk clubs and festivals. Their repertoire encompasses the influences of blues, soul, west-coast rock and traditional American music and includes a number of self-penned material alongside classics first recorded by Billie Holiday, Townes van Zandt, Patti Scialfa, Jackson Browne and Amos Lee.

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The Albion Christmas Band

The group features the combined talents of Ashley Hutchings(ex Fairport Convention/Steeleye Span/Albion Band and current Rainbow Chasers), Kellie While, Simon Care(ex Albion Band/Tickled Pink) and the current lead man for Fairport Convention Simon Nicol.
For more information on ALBION CHRISTMAS BAND visit the following website at thealbionchristmasband.googlepages.com/

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Sofi De la Torre

Sofi de la Torre is a singer/songwriter from Las Palmas, currently living in London where she attends the Goldsmiths College of Arts.
Her music is raw and heartfelt, with hints of folk. Her voice is naturally warm and intense, sometimes gracefully teasing. She knows how to play a tune and wield our emotions, to bring us in her fresh and authentic way, simple stories of everyday life and love.
Sofi's music will remind you of something you did not know you had.

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Aletia

Aletia is South African born singer/songwriter, who now lives in London. She started her music career in her teens as a cabaretist. This included Aletia showcasing her talents in original songs; stand up, comedy, puppetry, Shakespeare and world music. Her performance highlights so far include a very unique solo cabaret performance of ‘Miss Demeanour’ in some of London’s top theatres. Also touring the world with her music where she was invited to perform at the Cabaret Conference in Yale, USA and performances in Italy, France and Japan.

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Elvis Perkins In Dearland

Elvis Perkins (born February 9, 1976) is a folk-rock singer-songwriter. He is the son of actor Anthony Perkins (an Academy-award nominated screen actor best known for his role as Norman Bates in Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho), and a well known Elvis Presley aficionado, and photographer Berry Berenson, whose work appeared regularly in Life magazine. He was raised in Los Angeles, California and New York City. Perkins is a great-grandson of the fashion designer Elsa Schiaparelli and a nephew of the actress Marisa Berenson. Perkins attended Brown University, in Providence, Rhode Island.

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Scattered Few

Scattered Few break through the modern classifications of music having created a
totally unique sound palette with riffs ranging from soothingly soft ambience to
mellow psychedelia with heart warming vocals. The band was originally started by
Andy (guitars) in 2000. This line up played one gig then the band members went
their separate ways. It was not until 2003 that Andy met Alder (bass) through work

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Deolinda

Deolinda is a project from Lisbon, Portugal, inspired by fado and its traditional roots in order to create original songs based on portuguese traditional and popular music. It came to life in 2006, by the hands of 4 young musicians with diverse musical backgrounds and experiences (such as classical music, jazz, ethnical and traditional music), searching to recreate a sound rooted in popular music through the crossing of different musical languages and musical research serving as a base for the group's original compositions.

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Dave House

Dave House is a solo artist based in South West London who has been making music for over a decade. With a background firmly rooted in punk rock, Dave’s personal musical tastes defy any one genre and his eventual progression from band member to solo artist was an obvious one. Like Billy Bragg before him, Dave is a modern day storyteller who writes honest and passionate guitar pop. Armed with heartfelt lyrics and a wide range of influences, his work has drawn comparisons to The Weakerthans, Death Cab For Cutie, The Postal Service and The Get Up Kids.

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The Chieftains

The Chieftains are a Grammy winning Irish musical group founded in 1962, known for performing and popularizing Irish traditional music. The band has recorded many albums of instrumental Irish folk music, as well as multiple collaborations with popular musicians of many genres, including Country music, Galician traditional music, Cape Breton and Newfoundland music, and rock and roll. They have performed with Van Morrison, The Rolling Stones, Sting, Roger Daltrey, Elvis Costello, Tom Jones, Sinéad O'Connor, James Galway, Jackson Browne, Nancy Griffith and numerous country-western artists.

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