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Hailing from Soweto, South Africa, Phundo Art currently calls the United Kingdom home, A rapper who is thrillingly impossible to pigeonhole having created music within a plethora of genres from Rap, Drill & R&B. Music has always been an important part of Phundo’s upbringing. He was heavily influenced by South African Kwaito music, early 00’s hip-hop and introduced to rock music upon arriving in the UK aged twelve. Phundo started his career writing and recording music with various artists including Scxrlord and Jorja Smith. Regularly played shows across London and England including Reading and Leeds, Made Festival & Vale Festival. His close knit supportive online network of fans has allowed him to travel far and wide as he has toured as far out as Holland. Phundo has supported AJ Tracey, A$AP Mob & Kojey Radical. Phundo has also collaborated with established artists such as UK Rapper Eyez on their record FARSI, Blxckie on ‘Kung Fu’ & French Producer DJ LEWIS with their record ‘Kill Your Phone’ & has been endorsed by tastemakers throughout the industry having received airplay on BBC Radio 1, BBC Radio 1 Xtra, Kiss Fm to name a few.

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My name is Charlie McMahon and I am a fashion and textile designer from the North East of England. My work is inspired by rural textile traditions and bringing them into a high fashion context. My most recent project is inspired by a series of nightmares I had as a child featuring the painting ‘Miss Wong’ by Vladimir Tretchikoff, which hung in my living room when I was growing up. Inspired by the paintings vivid colours and the subjects piercing stare, I have made a wardrobe of clothes for this nightmare woman. Featuring over the top colours and prints that swarm around the body and unconventional silhouettes and pattern cutting, in order to emulate the disorienting feeling of being in a nightmare.

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Blessed with a soaring vocal, UK based John Dhali is an explosion of positive energy. He pours his experiences overcoming mental health issues into a musical medicine for the soul. Last year he released his crowd-funded debut, the 'In Time LP' – an indie/ folk/ rock concoction filled with infectious, hook-laden melodies that build to unstoppable choruses and anthemic heights. With shades of Kodaline, The Lumineers and Jeff Buckley, the album has received support from Spotify UK New Music Friday, prestigious music blogs such as Clash and Earmilk and international radio airplay. At the end of 2022 he picked up the DrakeYolanda Award for Emerging Artists and this year he’s just received a 1st place award in the International Songwriting competition - the worlds largest songwriting contest.

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Tess is a visual artist with a strong foundation in acrylic painting, who began her creative outlet during lockdown. She has since begun exploring mediums, including digital, mixed media and more.

The themes of mortality are central to many of her pieces, using colour and subject matter to convey this duality, reflecting in the equilibrium between chaos and tranquillity, the natural balance of the universe, and with visual elements that blur the line between reality and the unknown.

Tess aims to expand and push creative boundaries in any way possible. With a mixed background, she looks to include heritage and culture into her works, and therefore reinforce the values of inclusion and connection too, encouraging unity and shared experience among all who engage with the arts.

Flying in all the way from Paris, France, we have Lullaby touching down on 12th May to share her art! Electro journalist by day, DJ by night, Marie aka Lullaby is a big fan of techno, hard trance, eurodance and trance. She oscillates between these four styles in order to present her first love for the dark sounds with violent kicks of techno and hard trance and her second passion for the more kitschy and euphoric sounds characteristic of eurodance and trance. Based in Paris, Lullaby hopes to eventually produce her own sounds.

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Jack Miller and Oscar Farrell have been releasing music for four years under the title of Rein, racking up over 500,000 streams on Spotify with plays on radio one and support from artists such as Hammer, Dj Seinfeld and Kettama. Rein’s music seeks to encapsulate the emotions of early adulthood, taking inspiration from the contemporary electronic music scene that is so strong in the UK.

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Matt Kent is known for his sophisticated sound that blends R&B, Classical and Pop. Kent quickly gained a following on Tik Tok, with his unique series titled “Turning Classical Music into Pop Songs”. His most popular release from this series, “Lacrimosa” is nearing three million streams on spotify and climbing fast. Kent has over 300 thousand followers on social media platforms and 4.7 million total likes. Since he began songwriting in 2015, Matt has performed in showcases at legendary venues across NYC and London such as, The Bitter End, Mercury Lounge, Madison Square Garden, CarFest, Ronnie Scotts, and many more. After placing in the international songwriting competition “Coffee Music Project” in 2019, Matt Kent caught the attention of established music producer Dante Lattanzi who signed Kent to his management company. Matt is currently on tour in London playing with established pianist and arranger Liv Lester. Together, the duo use their classical training to create evocative and intricate works.

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Crazy story: one time I was busking in Chinatown and got spotted by the tour manager for a band called Rednex and asked to join the group on tour. I said yes and now I officially sing with Rednex who are most famous for releasing the song COTTON EYE JOE…. It’s absolutely mad but the takeaway is that I’m never saying no to new opportunities and trying new things and bringing heaps of good energy with me 😎

A DJ and Producer born in London but grew up playing across Nottingham and Leeds where he developed his unique blend of house and hip hop. Having played at notable events and venues including Fabric, Strawberries and Cream Festival, Mint Festival and Mint Warehouse, Tej now hosts a monthly show on Bloop Radio where he continues to showcase his style.

Sami Rhymes is an Award-Winning Spoken Word Artist, Poet, Author, Facilitator and Creative from London, UK. Since summer 2019 she has performed and headlined at a number of public and private events/festivals in London, nationally and abroad in Malaysia.

2022 saw Sami pick up “Best Female Spoken Word Poet” , perform nationally and also marked the release of her Debut EP “Triple Threat”. Media features include BBC Radio London, ITV news and S1:E3 of the BAFTA winning Sky Arts commissioned TV show Life & Rhymes to name a few.

Her poetry touches on everything from identity to relationships to mental health, injustices and day to day experiences.

Her debut collection “20 Something” is available on Amazon and her next book and EP is in progress.

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