Featured Artist: Kate Davey

Warning: This show may contain future headliners! Phillip Stoneman introduces the best new music from our area, including:

• A blend of Kate Bush, Lana Del Ray and Gracie Abrams. Discover the international pop star who's made it big based out of LA, who's made it big, straight outta Shropshire. Aged 16, Maisy Kay swapped the Sunday roasts of rural Claverley for the bright lights and sun-kissed beaches of California, crafting her way to superstardom.

• Worthy Farm has put the Pyramid Stage out for pasture in 2026, meaning there is a fallow year at Glastonbury. But don't get down, because instead celebrating the grassroots venues across our area, we're in Northwich, Newcastle, Hanley, Shrewsbury and Worcester, for the inaugural Everywhere at Once festival. One of those shows is a sold-out Worcestershire homecoming of Bewdley's Becky Hill!

• In our Festival Guide: Forest Live at Cannock Chase, Trentham Live begins in Stoke-on-Trent, the Upton Jazz Festival, Glastonbeoley in Redditch and Smokefest in Kington.

• Back for a second year as resident DJ for the glamourous boat parties of Zante, we join Newport's Tom Hall on the edge of the Ionian Sea, spinning the hits to up to 400 revellers at a time for nigh on 50 trips a season. Discover how he's joined Burton's Nathan Dawe for the track of a lifetime on the legendary Atlantic Records.

• In the Music News: Pop music's biggest Port Vale fan announces a shirt sponsorship, the Herefordshire musician with split loyalties at the World Cup and a record-breaking Worcestershire music festival announces it's returning for 2027.

• A natural at turning life in to lyrics: Discover Preston-on-Wye's Kate Davey, who effortlessly weaves between writing about her own life, including coping with ADHD, and the lives of the patients she cares for.

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