Widely considered a feminist icon, Grammy winner Ani DiFranco is the mother of the DIY movement, being one of the first artists to create her own record label in 1990. While she has been known as the “Little Folksinger,” her music has embraced punk, funk, hip hop, jazz, soul, electronica and even more distant sounds. Her most recent album is the June 2023 25th Anniversary Edition reissue of her seminal album 'Little Plastic Castle' on Righteous Babe Records.  Her memoir 'No Walls and the Recurring Dream' was a New York Times Top 10 best seller in 2019, and her debut children’s book 'The Knowing' is out now.

Music Bio. 


I am a singer song writer, poet and dancer. 
My music comes from a place of exploration and honesty. 
True artistry is about thought provoking conversations and conscious creation. 
I write to the tempo of my heart, about whatever subject takes me. 
Be it love, the state of the world today or the condition of the collective human mind.  
Music, writing, poetry and dancing is my outlet for self expression. 
We are all unknown song writers and poets of some kind, unknowingly and knowingly. We have shaped our lives through thoughts, words and vibrations. 

Belief is the key to creativity. 
I welcome you all to my journey of life, love and music. 

My influences are life and the people that surround me. 
I’ve performed around London and outside england doing a lot of different showcases introducing members of the public to my sound and my message. 
From the mid to late 90s I have been cultivating and moulding my style for true  purpose. 
By the early millennium I pressed several copies of my garage track titled ‘Contagious’ on white label, where I self distributed to various nightclubs and pirate radio stations.  
From the mid to late millennium I’ve worked of different musical projects, also recorded a funky house track called ‘Fly Away’ which I filmed two Music videos for. 
One video was for the originally mix and the other for the remix. 
My music is an eclectic of different sounds different expressions. But my Primary sound would be R&B, Soul and Hip-Hop. 
I’ve worked with various different producers who are all very different in musical styles. I am always writing and creating new musical ideas. 
My music is about the plate for freedom justice and the truth with love at the base of it all.

Joe Pug hosts a monthly conversation with one of today's best songwriters

Rapper, singer, producer, truth dweller, realist.

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Tony & Grammy award-winning composer, producer, orchestrator, bandleader and double bassist whose music straddles the worlds of folk, indie rock, jazz and chamber music.

RoseRed And The Butterflies, aka Lydia Nicolaides is a prolific singer/songwriter from north London Enfield, with a DIY ethos.

She pens catchy lyrics and silver tongued melodies that tell stories in a refreshing and original way. With a mixture of realism, fun, quirkiness and sadness, RoseRed’s music can move effortlessly from lightness into dark, and her style crosses a variety of genres, from Folk to Rock; from Country to Reggae. ‘Imagine Mary Poppins on acid’ playing the guitar and dancing like a pixie.

RoseRed released her eagerly awaited debut album ‘Just A Glimmer’ in 2010 an album which she wrote, recorded, produced and funded herself, in-between several years of playing the London gig circuit and which got voted and won the Fatea Magazine debut album of the year 2010 Award. In November 2016 she self released and produced her second album ‘New Age Drifter’

She has had two of her songs feature in two British Independent Films ‘Jesus Versus The Messiah’ and ‘Chinese Burns’.

RoseRed is currently toplining on EDM projects and working on writing for other artists.

Songwriter, performer and producer Ruth Theodore has released a string of critically acclaimed records to date. The latest two records are fruits of a longstanding collaboration with Tony award winning US producer and bassist Todd Sickafoose (Ani Difranco/Anais Mitchell) and Swiss American percussionist Mathias Kunzl (Regina Spektor). Starting her musical career aged 14 busking in doorways on detuned guitars Ruth has gone on to perform her songs and tour alongside legendary international artists such as grammy award winning folk singers Ani Difranco, Dar Williams, Jeff Lang, Hamell On Trial and Nick Harper and more,  for packed out venues including The London Palladium, Bush Hall, The Union Chapel, The Borderline and Glastonbury Festival.

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