Emotional, heartfelt and eclectic: Norine Braun in 3 words. A Vancouver based singer-songwriter Norine Braun is an award winning artist (Canada Council For the Arts Award, Los Angeles Music Awards, Artists For Literacy) who has a slew of festival appearances under her belt. Her music blinks an eye to the past, while firmly looking forward, blending timeless elements such as blues, folk and soul, presenting them to the audience with a freshness and balance that are in tune with today's sensibilities. Norine's eclectic approach to songwriting and her prowess as a heartfelt performer are the fundaments of her solid reputation within her local scene, and beyond.

Dawn Pemberton has deep musical roots that take her powerful voice from gospel and soul to jazz, funk and world music. She has become a staple of the Vancouver music scene and can often be found tearin’ it up as a vocalist, teacher, facilitator, choir director and “go to girl” for live performances and studio sessions. A passionate songwriter and performer Dawn crafts her music with a sense of adventure, quirkiness, and serious groove and shapes it into her own unique and dynamic package.
Tight, expressive and bold, Dawn will hit you where it counts, funk you up and make you say “Go ‘head!”

Eva Schubert is a singer and songwriter based in Vancouver, Canada. Inspired by jazz greats like Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday, and Nina Simone, blues icons like Etta James, and — perhaps improbably — Leonard Cohen, she writes in a diverse range of styles. “Songs for a Ladies’ Man” is her first album, full of songs with a classic jazz appeal. The album represents a partnership with producer Paul Claxton, whom she credits with a significant degree of mind reading, and a great deal of creativity.

Simon has been singing and playing bass guitar with indie-pop stalwarts Garfields Birthday since the mid-90s, becoming the reluctant front man in 2004 after the departure of founding member James Laming. It would have been very easy to let the band rust in pieces, but instead they carried on regardless as a trio, playing live once again (including three appearances at the legendary Cavern Club in Liverpool, UK) and releasing three highly acclaimed albums between 2008 and 2014. 

Formed, very loosely indeed, somewhere between Greenhill and Ferndale Road in Weymouth in the mid-to-late 1990s, Gothic Chicken originally fell together as a drunken side-trip. At that time, Alan, Luke and Tom held down day-jobs with The Lucky Bishops, while Alan also pulled double-duty in Cheese with Marco (late of The Kevin McDermott Orchestra). The initial idea, if indeed there was one, was to bemuse and ideally uplift Dorset pubgoers by hosing them down with an evening’s worth of unruly ’60s psychedelic covers beloved of the band, whose early tendency was to convert insalubrious lager dens into candlelit caves draped in cheap, lurid and worryingly flammable 1960s curtains. 

Steve Wilson cut his musical teeth in The Little Green Men, a band that developed a strong cult following in the late 80s early 90s. He then decided to go back to college and study music before going on to Middlesex University to do a Performing Arts degree playing various roles from Richard III to a brummie Elvis impersonator. After working on various projects in and around London, Steve returned to Dorset to record his first solo album Steppin’ it up a Notch, and to co-write a childrens musical, followed by the second album Sideshows and Fairytales. Steve brings all his experiences, from busking on streets around Europe, playing in pit orchestras, innumerable gigs and having two kids and channels them into his songwriting, which has been described as "food for the seriously starved soul, crafted with rare care." Steve can now also be seen playing bass for The Robbie McIntosh Band and completed a challenge to write a song every day in May, some of which can be heard on the forthcoming album by Wilson, Old School, New Rules.