FIONA BEVAN
Fiona Bevan’s sweet, fiery warblings have been compared to Erykah Badu, Joni Mitchell and Marc Bolan. Her oddball pop songs are inflected with folk, and her award-winning lyrics pry into the dark, obsessive corners of love, with a cast of stumbling party-girls, fickle sailors, bored bubble-gum shop-girls, and forlorn lovers sleeping out in trees.
Fiona has been shimmering her blonde afro round the London gig circuit as well as playing in Zurich, Berlin, Glastonbury and Secret Garden Party festivals, and on Channel 4.
She self-released her debut album on iTunes last autumn, and will appear in a forthcoming British film starring Om Puri.

“Absolutely brilliant” Tom Robinson, BBC6Music
“Spine-tingling. Fiona Bevan completely transported me” Alex James, Blur
“Soulful and eccentric” Guardian
“A captivating new voice” London Jazz Festival 2009
“Radiant and uplifting . . . a major talent in the waiting” glasswerk.co.uk

KERRY LEATHAM
About to embark on a “Homemade Tour” of the UK with her label Tape Club Records, Kerry Leatham comes home to give Colchester a sneak preview of her “beautiful, intelligent urban-folk”.
Her debut album is due for release this summer - titled ‘Stories From The Self Obsessed’. The first single – ‘A Different Light’ - is out April 5th, in partnership with Tape Club Records. She will be singing a set of her own shy, delicate daydream songs, accompanied by herself on guitar and by Jay Darwish (Newton Faulkner’s bassist) on double-bass.

ROSALIE BEVAN
Influenced by everyone from Ella Fitzgerald to Gershwin to Pantera, Rosalie will be smokily seranading Colchester with her husky, sultry voice, accompanying herself with irresistible toe-tapping jazz/blues guitar work.

DOGTANION
Also from the Tape Club Records stable, fellow Colchester boy
Dogtanion will be playing his own variety of “harmonic, dynamic and surprising” music. Having made bedroom electronica since the age of 17, Dogtanion has survived two Glastonbury festivals, a weird thing with his big toe, and a terminated record deal. Now sliding around on his socks between East London and Manchester, Dogtanion will also be warming up for his appearance on the “Homemade Tour”.

JULIANA MEYER
“…definitely a star in the making” BBC Radio. 
Following the release of Juliana’s self-produced debut album ‘Holding Up The Sky’ in 2007, the success of the album led to an invitation to perform at the BBC Gala Show for BBC1’s Children In Need, where she performed alongside music legends, as well as performances at Glastonbury Festival, the Houses of Parliament, and headlining The Barn Stage at Beach Break Live Festival. She recently won Best Female at the EMAE Awards, and was nominated for Best Pop. She was also nominated as Best Solo Artist and Best Original Act in the TopOfTheOx Awards and her album ‘Holding Up The Sky’ was chosen by Music-News.com as one of their ‘Best Albums of 2008′, placed between Take That and Oasis.

Tickets are £4 and are available from the Headgate Theatre box office - 01206 366000

Doors at 7pm

Don’t miss it, it’s going to be a magical one-off!