Kerry Devine + Maija Sofia + Annie Dressener

Kerry Devine

Kerry Devine and her band will be performing tracks from their forthcoming album Away From Mountains.https://kerrydevinemusic.bandcamp.com/Support from the mystical witchery that is Maija SofiäKerry Devine is an artist hailing from Cambridgeshire and is set to release her debut album ‘Away From Mountains’ at the end of the year.Recorded live at Fotheringhay Church in Oundle and featuring sampled sounds of the Fenland throughout from trains departing pit yards, to discarded barrels used as drums, this lyrically honest and musically bewitching sound will take you deep into another world.Speaking about the album Kerry write’s; ‘It’s profoundly inspired by the landscape. I’m hypnotized by it. It’s a place where people never really arrive, and scarcely leave.

The fields once belonged to water and sometimes it feels as if the water is trying to return. 
But it never does.

I’ve paced many days away in the Fens and every time I always find something undiscovered. This is reflected in the album and all that it is, the artwork, the sounds and textures; I wanted it to be sparse, yet rich with sounds undiscovered, until the next listen’.

Annie Dressener

Since moving from her hometown of New York City to the UK five years ago, singer-songwriter Annie Dressner has received considerable recognition from her live shows, as well as both her debut album, "Strangers Who Knew Each Other's Names" (2011), her EP "East Twenties" (April 2013) & her newest work, a single titled "Don't Feel The Same" (2013). Dressner has been recording her second in-studio album with producer Nigel Stonier (Thea Gilmore) over the past few months.

Her songs have been played on Radio 2 and 6 music, among other local BBC radio stations.
Dressner's songs are delivered with a such conversational ease, it often seems as if she is reading from an intimate letter or a book, set to music. Her straightforward lyrical style, sharp ear for wordplay and crisp, lilting vocals offer listeners a front row seat to her stories, as they take shape above the understated music. She has been compared to an up-tempo Mazzy Star 'Fade Into You,' or Jenny Lewis.

While in New York, Annie played a variety of clubs and bars since 2009, including Rockwood Music Hall, The Living Room, The Bitter End and Brooklyn's Jalopy. Since arriving in the UK, Annie has played at Festivals & venues throughout England, such as the Green Man Festival, Secret Garden Party, Cambridge Folk Festival, Cluny2, O2 Academy Islington, Norwich Arts Centre, Night & Day, and has opened for Emily Barker, Simone Felice, Kirsty McGee, Juan Zelada, Lucy Wainwright Roche & Fossil Collective.

She is also one half of The Pollyanna Band (the other half is Polly Paulusma).