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Andrew Marston introduces Ollie Gray (Bircher Common nr Leominster)

BBC Introducing Hereford & Worcester

Unsigned, undiscovered and under-the-radar music, as recorded at The Courtyard, Hereford.

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Sat 23 May 201520:00

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Ollie Gray's BBC Introducing session
Duration: 16:48

Partyline!
Big Bad Wolf
Performing at the Hay Festival
- Sasha McVeigh
  Someone To Break My Heart
Sub-Tastic
Callin' 4 U
Sam Eden
Aviator
Reviewed
- Chevy Chase Stole My Wife
  Electricity
Jüpitronz
Curse of the Green Monkey
In session at The Courtyard in Hereford
- Ollie Gray
  My Life
Sundays Child
Lipgloss
- MAS.
Lucia Nicole
Just Stop
T-Minus
Pure Fury Pt.1 - Force A Smile
Matt Envy
Keep On
STUBBS
La La Lay
AKA George
Return Of The Fever
Terence J Hughes
Strange Attraction
Natalie Holman
Heart Of Stone
Maiday
Wish You'd Met Me First
Gig of the week
- Barefoot In Baltimore
  Paradise For The Living
In session at The Courtyard in Hereford
- Ollie Gray
  False Fantasy
Featured track
- Hereford Cathedral School Cantabile Girls Choir
  The Skylark

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Ollie Gray is a 17-year-old singer/songwriter who can just about play every traditional instrument known to man!

He makes all of his recordings at home and spends the rest of his time studying music at the Hereford College of Arts.

He lives at Bircher Common near Leominster and his live session was to celebrate the launch of his debut EP.

All of our live studio sessions and festival gigs since 2005...

Thousands of people will be flocking to Hay-on-Wye from across the globe for their annual festival.

All subjects will be tackled by some of the world's greatest writers, comedians and actors.

There'll be live music too from Nigel Kennedy, Frank Turner, Texas, Tinariwen & King Charles.

Our reporter Nicola Goodwin's been along to see how the preparations are going.

Check out our local festival guide...

In the gig guide: We have details of The Hay Festival, HowTheLightGetsIn, Asparafest, Breaking Bands and Severn Sounds.
In the news: Details of a new festival near Kidderminster and celebrating 300 years of the Three Choirs.

Read about the success stories from Herefordshire & Worcestershire...

Throughout May, all of our live sessions were performed in the studio - the Studio Theatre at The Courtyard in Hereford, that is!

As well as regular music nights in both there and the Main House, the centre is home to the Music Pool charity and hosts regular Jazz Cafe events in the bar area along with various open mic nights.

The glass-fronted building, on Edgar Street, officially opened in 1998 on the site of its predecessor and before that it used to be a swimming pool!

Listen to some of our favourite interviews...

This week, Andy O'Hare reviews...

Mark Leedham, Mike Skilbeck, Some Old Git, Terry Walls & Chevy Chase Stole My Wife at The Goodrest Tavern, Worcester.
The Ernie Chattaway Memorial Gig: The Delray Rockets, Rock-A-Hula & Station Break at The Marr's Bar, Worcester.
Cassandra & Red Room Therapy at The Victory, Hereford.

How to make it in the music industry: The Boomtown Rats

We started off the year with a brand new series of 'How To Make It In The Music Industry' with Hereford's Sean Denny, who runs his own record label at Sony Records in London.

This week, we continue to talk you through the whole signing process with a case study that is right here on our doorstep.

Gary Roberts is the guitarist and founding member of the Boomtown Rats and lives in Bromyard.

It's taken us three years to persuade him to give away his secrets of how his band attracted the attention of managers, record labels and studio producers - and how they insisted the band retained full creative control of their music.

Hear more top advice in our Musicians' Masterclass...

Last weekend it was the final of the Songs Of Praise Choir of the Year - and the Hereford Cathedral School Cantabile Girls Choir carried off the title.

The piece they sang was called Skylark.

The words were written by the Herefordshire 1st World War poet and former Cathedral School pupil Digby Haseler.

100 years on, his son Nicholas visited Hereford for the first time to walk in his father's footsteps with our reporter Nicola Goodwin.

Read about the success stories from Herefordshire & Worcestershire...

BBC Introducing at the Wychwood Festival

We're returning to the Wychwood Festival on Cheltenham Racecourse to host a regional BBC Introducing stage along with our colleagues from BBC Local Radio.

We've been given the whole of the Sunday to showcase ten acts from Herefordshire & Worcestershire - which include the four sessions that will transmit throughout June.

As always, we invited musicians who uploaded their tracks to bbc.co.uk/herefordandworcester/introducing.