Tim Wheeler is an Irish singer-songwriter and musician hailing from Downpatrick, Northern Ireland. Born in 1977, he is best recognised as the Gibson Flying-V wearing frontman of alternative rock outfit Ash. An Ivor Novello Award winner, Wheeler also has a career as a solo musician (though Ash is still going strong). We look forward to welcoming Tim to Braziers Park for Septembersong!

Carson McHone is a songwriter from Austin, Texas, now residing in Southern Ontario. McHone’s 2018 internationally released Carousel (Loose Music / Nine Mile Records), produced by Mike McCarthy, was a reimagining of songs from her formative years coming of age playing in dive bars. It established her as a shrewd artist who raises unconventional questions with language equally at home in a poem or a short story. In 2019, during a hectic tour schedule, the songs of Still Life were written, and the following year McHone teamed up with Canadian musician and producer, Daniel Romano, to record the album while sequestered at a home studio in the fall of 2020. Still Life was released on Merge Records / Loose Music in February 2022 with McHone touring the US, Canada, Europe, and the UK in support of the album, as well as joining, and performing with, Daniel Romano’s band, the Outfit. In September 2022 McHone released Camera Varda Variations (Merge Records / Loose Music ), a digital EP featuring two songs from Still Life re-recorded at the Outfit’s new studio, Camera Varda, with the group as her band, akin to the collaboration/live show of the two acts on tour. McHone has recorded and toured three albums as a member of the Outfit, Cobra Poems (2022), La Luna (2023), and Too Hot To Sleep (2024), all released on You’ve Changed Records. McHone’s upcoming EP, ODES, is a collection of carefully curated covers recorded at Camera Varda with her bandmates the Outfit, plus special guest Shannon McGrath, and will be released July 19th, 2024 on Merge Records.

William Tyler is a Nashville guitarist and composer. He spent years woodshedding and touring with Nashville groups like Lambchop and Silver Jews before breaking away to focus on his own version of instrumental guitar music.

Transparently wonderful songs that hold a mirror up to the human condition, the human soul and the human heart - Dan takes you from smart phone screens to glass making in his exploration of ‘The Glass Age’ in which we now live. This is where the light gets in. “Gorgeous… intriguing” The Guardian

Essex-based harp and synth duo Masal follow their acclaimed collaboration with Andy Bell with a new album, “The Galloping Cat”, which was mastered by Andy’s Ride bandmate Mark Gardener and is released in March. The first single from the album, ‘Black Beads’, according to the duo’s Özlem Simsek, is a song all about “finding one’s purpose in life, battling with uncertainty, the unexpected turns and changes while searching for the things that make us happy or make us feel fulfilled”. The Galloping Cat finds this unlikely pair of “neurodiverse nature lovers” collaborating on six meandering tracks of psychedelic grooves, electronic weirdness and motorik basslines, mostly wordlessly exploring themes of self-discovery – and it’s stunning. Even more so, because, in theory, it’s a musical combination that shouldn’t work. Oz is a Turkish/English harpist, theremin player and vocalist whose middle eastern background is entwined with her western studies in classical music. Meanwhile, Alastair Johnson grew up in Hadleigh, Essex, relying on the library’s record collection for inspiration before he started making experimental electronic music as Alien and Weapon Eyes.

Award-winning ‘broken folk’ experimentalists — Lunatraktors strip Anglo-Celtic traditionals to the bare bones of vocal harmony and percussive dance, expanding into weird, playful spaces with eclectic acoustic beats, accordion, whistles and deep drones. Ancient and contemporary, mournful and joyously deranged, Lunatraktors are ‘simply different’ (RTÉ Lyric FM). MOJO Top Ten Folk Albums 2019 & 2021.

"Achingly beautiful" - Rev. Kate Bottley (BBC Radio 2) "One of the UK's most moving songwriters" - John Kennedy (Radio X) Tom Bright’s last 18 months have seen him appear on BBC’s The One Show, Sky News, BBC Radio 2, BBC 5 Live, in session on Radio X, perform at the iconic London Palladium, Shepherd's Bush Empire, tour across Europe and much more, kicking off 2024 by supporting The Libertines and The Leisure Society, and before that opening for the likes of Mystery Jets and Tom Grennan. Before his musical endeavours, Tom was once the UK’s youngest pub landlord, and is also a former patient of Great Ormond Street Hospital, undergoing a multitude of major life-saving operations. His third album, ‘Somewhere Anywhere’ - produced by Ed Harcourt and mastered by Miles Showell at Abbey Road Studios - was released in October 2023 and is his most personal and reflective work to date

A master storyteller with a voice like rolling thunder’ – GQ Magazine London-based Dubliner Louis Brennan is a singer-songwriter in the folk tradition. His folk however aren’t the field-hands and travelling minstrels of yore, but the repressed middle-managers and ennui-ridden urbanites of late-stage capitalism. They populate tales of bad sex, half-drunk commutes and interpersonal claustrophobia, delivered in Brennan’s cracked baritone, at times embarrassingly intimate, at times spuriously broad, peppered with pitch-black humour. Brennan’s debut album 'Dead capital' (2018) was awarded 9/10 by Americana UK who called it "an outstanding album; deep, dark and demanding of attention" , with comparisons to Kris Kristofferson, Guy Clark and Leonard Cohen. A handful of singles, including the duet ‘A Full House’ with AMAUK award-winner Michele Stodart, received airplay from Ralph McLean, Bob Harris, Lonesome Highway and others. His eagerly awaited second LP 'Love Island' , (2022) recorded mid-pandemic at the legendary Rockfield Studios in Wales, and mixed at Abbey Road, was called “An essential album for our times” by Lonesome Highway, with Brennan’s sharp tongue delving further into his dystopian vision of society.

Pete Astor led Creation Records’ groups The Loft and The Weather Prophets, writing songs and releasing records that helped define the sound of the label and the emerging Indie genre. He has gone on to a lengthy solo career since then; writing, recording and releasing music on a range of labels including Matador, Heavenly, Warp, EMI and Fortuna Pop. Since 2017 Astor has been signed to Tapete Records, home to Robert Forster, Lloyd Cole and Comet Gain among many reputable others. He will be playing songs from his new record, Tall Stories & New Religions where he is re-visits and re-imagines his songs from throughout his lengthy and estimable career. A lifetime of listening has led me to believe that Pete Astor’s songs would have always found a way to reach an audience. If he’d been a Californian baby boomer, he’d have ended up in the Capitol Records building in Los Angeles, laying down late-night grooves with the Wrecking Crew for a largely-neglected, slightly gloomy, pop album that’d now be worth a fortune. If he’d been born into post-War Britain, earnest girls in sweaters would’ve fallen in love with him, and his songs, in Embassy-fogged folk clubs. - Danny Kelly, NME

Formed in 1985, the 14 Iced Bears’ first single Inside/Blue Suit/Cut got legendary dj John Peel’s attention and he loved the session that followed on his show. They also were caught on the wave of C86 that followed the emergence of bands like the Jesus and Mary Chain, and became a favourite of many a fanzine. After a few singles, their eponymous first lp took a more psychedelic turn and they toured supporting acts such as Julian Cope, Alex Chilton and the Velvet Underground. Splitting up after their second lp Wonder, they became seen more and more as an influence to younger bands of the ilk and reformed in 2010 to tour again, including the East and West coasts of the US. Cherry Red then released all the Bears material in their Hold on Inside CD , which was taken up and released on two vinyl lps by Optic Nerve. Back again after another break and a ringing six-page article in psych oracle Shindig Magazine, and with the second lp lineup, the Iced Bears played their first set in ten years to a sold-out crowd in Sheffield in April 2024, with a tour of gigs ahead, including Paris, London and the Preston Popfest.

Defiantly working class, Hannah White in full, proud council estate swagger, is coming to Septembersong Festival and baring all. The artist Holler Magazine described as “Americana’s answer to Mike Skinner. More Patsy Palmer than Cline” began 2023 by earning a Americana Music Association UK Best Song Award, and ended it with the release of her much-anticipated album ‘Sweet Revolution’ which reached #17 in the Official UK Americana Charts and #14 in the Official Independent Album Charts & earning her a host of AMA UK 2024 Award nominations. Her typically British, self-deprecating humour does nothing to diminish the emotion which Acoustic Magazine described as “arresting and wholly believable”. Hannah White is an artist who has “a wittiness to her grittiness and a sparkling wink in her poetry”; One who personifies authenticity and shows us all how London does country! Uncut Magazine called her’s “an expressive voice and songcraft”, Krentenuitdepop, Netherlands said she does “roots music on par with the best currently being made in the US”. Fatea Magazine said “songwriting from the top drawer” whilst 3 Chords And The Truth agree ”we are in the midst of a seriously fine songwriter”. “If soul is a feeling, a fire that burns inside you, then Hannah White is without a doubt a soul singer” (Holler).

Our Man In The Field, the musical pseudonym of British singer/songwriter Alex Ellis, is the result of a mid-life epiphany. In 2014, Ellis found himself in the hospital under observation for intense abdominal pains. A tumor was discovered similar to a growth that led to the death of his father in his 40s. As Ellis awaited treatment, he reflected on his dad’s life – hard work in a job he didn’t like, with no ability to enjoy the fruits of his labor before he passed – and realized he needed to make some changes to avoid the same fate. Until then Ellis had been an actor, but it wasn’t catapulting him to a fulfilling life. Upon his discharge and subsequent recovery, he began writing and slowly creating his aesthetic and sonic identity as a musician. “I think of Our Man In The Field as kind of a character and not really even me,” says Ellis. “Something like a Jack Kerouac or an Albert Camus. A writer and a correspondent, a roving reporter like a TV version in the ‘70s; Hunter S Thompson but less guns and LSD. I don’t want the listener to think about the songs as being mine or about me, it’s more about the story and the characters in there. They’re always about real people and hopefully that makes them relatable.” Produced and mixed by Tucker Martine (Modest Mouse, Rosanne Cash, Case/Lang/Veirs), Gold On the Horizon was released on November 3 2023 (ORDER HERE), is a 12-song collection of life observations and the urge to explore their universal meanings through Ellis’s fly-on-the-wall, tuneful alter-persona. Recorded at Flora Recording and Playback in Portland, Oregon, the album ranges from raw and barren in “Come Back To Me,” which showcases Ellis’s soulful vocal harmonies and a sparse arrangement of acoustic guitar and pedal steel, to the spacious mirror ball slow-dance of “Go Easy.” The album opener “Feel Good.” is a full and striding desert noir of horns, backup vocals, and baritone guitar. What informs Ellis and Gold On the Horizon is a lifetime of inspiration and the creative space to “wait for something magical to happen.”

Steeped in American folk traditions and singing as a community practice from an early age, Lisa creates music that seeks to recover a deeper connection with life, within and around us. She creates musical spaces full of aliveness and presence, with her voice as the gateway into a world of texture and harmony, embodiment of hard-won truths and unabashed gospel-like celebration. With her blend of vocals, guitar and live looper, Lisa creates soundscapes ranging from introspective folk to neo-soul inspired grooves. With a heartfelt desire to connect and a belief in the power of song, she inspires the audience to become part of the music, raising their voices and their spirits. Recent highlights include Lisa’s February album release ‘Return Home’ charting at #26 on the FAI folk charts tied with Americana singer Allison Russell, being selected for the prestigious Emerging Artist Showcase at Falcon Ridge Folk Festival in Goshen, CT, USA. Lisa was also asked to record backing vocals for a project with Leon Mobley, Percussionist for the renown ‘Ben Harper and the Innocent Criminals’. In the UK Lisa has opened for Hannah Saunders & Ben Savage, A Winter Union, Charlie Dore and Julian Littman and Wesley Stace among others. Lisa is working on her new album for release in 2025.