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Solitary Blossom

Solitary Blossom is a stage name I stole from a line in a Feeder song. Since pseudonyms seem to be the fashion at the moment... and it sounds a bit cooler than Jamie Maidment! I have been writing songs since I left school in 2001 and have been gigging in small holes, mostly around Essex and London, since 2005. I have been known to venture out to places like Edinburgh and Newcastle though... When I play live it is just me and my trusty guitar but thanks to the wonders of multitracking I record full band versions of my songs which end up on this page.

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Shawn Colvin

Shawn Colvin (born January 10, 1956 in Vermillion, South Dakota) is an American musician. Best known for her hit single "Sunny Came Home" from the album "A Few Small Repairs". Colvin's formative years were spent in the town of Carbondale, Illinois, where she attended Southern Illinois University Carbondale. She learned to play guitar at the age of 10. Her first public concert was at age 15 at the University of Illinois campus. Colvin cites Joni Mitchell as a primary influence on her music, and her initial performances closely mirrored Mitchell's inflections and guitar tunings.

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Maria Byrne

Maria is an Irish singer-songwriter, originally from Cork and based for the last few years in London. She has turned her hand to a range of occupations over the years including a year-long stint welding hairline cracks in Rolls Royce Jet Engines. Discovering that she was much happier singing and writing songs based on conversations she heard on buses, she taught herself to play guitar and took off to London in search of opportunity and a decent cup of tea. Since then she has played all over the capital and is releasing her debut EP 'Jack' in April 2009.

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Bertie Blackman

Bertie Blackman’s first encounter with her artistic self came as a child sashaying across her mother and father’s paint strewn studio floor. The daughter of iconic Australian artist Charles Blackman, not many musicians can boast a foundation of emotional expression like Bertie.

Bertie first stepped onto the scene with ‘Headway’ (2004), her folk-inspired debut album. The single ‘Favourite Jeans’ became Bertie’s radio breakthrough and saw her dubbed “Australia’s underground queen”.

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Marques Toliver

Marques Toliver was born in Tallahassee Florida on March 28, 1987, but moved to Daytona Beach at a young age. His first impressionable musical influence began as a young boy mimicking the deep southern style of singing he came in contact with. As the years progressed he would be introduced to the violin and later receive formal training that would allow him to continue acquiring musical knowledge in college.

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Rozi Plain

Rozi is a wonderful singer-songwriter based in Bristol, born in Winchester. Her voice fills her listeners with warmth and admiration and she has a wonderful open-ness on stage.
She belongs to the cleaner records gang, a close-knit bunch of clever musicians including Rozi Plain, Rachael Dadd, Romanhead, and Greg Ashby.

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Mieka Pauley

Mieka Pauley began as a solo artist in Boston. Her haunting voice and heartbreaking lyrics gained her more than a few fans, securing her bills with Citizen Cope, KT Tunstall, Natasha Bedingfield, Ben Kweller, Mason Jennings, John Legend, the Avett Brothers and many others. She won the first ever Starbucks Emerging Artist Award and the New York Songwriters Circle Songwriting Contest, and she was named Cosmopolitan Magazine's Fun Fearless Female Rockstar of the Year.

Read more about Mieka Pauley on Last.fm.

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Minor Sounds

Minor Sounds is the work of a Croatian singer/songwriter Mirna Stanich based in Brighton. The songs on her first album called “Super Komputer” have been recorded with a friend producer Martin Zietek who made a great contribution to the record taking it a step further. Originally written and arranged as folk songs, throughout the recording stages the music changed into a sound that crosses many genres.

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